UI and Feature Improvements

[andrewpareles]

Sidebar Chat

• Glue the chat's scroll position to the bottom as text is being generated.

• Ability to edit or delete individual chat messages.

• If an API key is not provided, the chat idles in "awaiting response" state. To reproduce, select Anthropic and don't provide an api key. This might be a React problem where the error state updates too quickly and isn't recognized.

• (lower priority) Link to all recognized files, variables, and symbols that appear in the chat.

• Switching tabs should abort the current chat stream (this doesn't mean switching editors, this means Void tabs e.g. opening "settings"). (removed tabs and added editor pane)

Inline Diffs

• Accept | Reject UI needs to be positioned correctly.

• The AI’s streaming response appears stuttery because it refreshes highlighting very frequently. An optimization (debouncing / refreshing fewer DiffAreas) might fix this.

• Code in the red sections doesn't wrap if you toggle wordWrap with Alt+Z.

• Put green on top and red on bottom for better readability?

• Abort the stream if the user presses undo (ctrl+Z), or redo, or there are any other interruptions.

• When the stream is done, we might want to convert each Diff into its own DiffArea so diffs aren't computed if the user types just anywhere in the file.

Misc

• We wanted to use this React library to build new UI, but it will be deprecated. The new plan is to use built-in widgets for BlockCode and text inputs, but this is hard and some needs work. See ui-improvements branch. (we're going with tailwind)

• Let users pull Ollama models straight from the editor? - will do this later, need to make it a good UX