ui: drop the ctrl+r transcript browser

README.md

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ is migrated on first use — your existing login becomes a host named for its AP
 base.
 
 The config file also carries UI preferences. `"sessionBar"` scopes the session
-list, which the interactive UI opens as a full screen with `ctrl+j`:
+list, which the interactive UI opens as a full screen with `esc`:
 
 ```json
 {

src/ui/SessionsApp.tsx

@@ -59,18 +59,14 @@ import { ConnectApp } from './ConnectApp'
 //     the trackpad and select/copy are the terminal's own — which is the reason
 //     for the screen split. Nothing may be pinned above or below it: rows
 //     scrolling past would run straight through any such band.
-//   * the session picker (ctrl+j, or esc / ↓ out of the chat) takes over the
+//   * the session picker (esc or ↓ out of the chat) takes over the
 //     ALTERNATE screen: the full session list, with the chat left untouched on
 //     the primary buffer behind it. enter opens a session and returns.
-//   * the transcript browser (ctrl+r, owned by ConnectApp) is the other
-//     alternate-screen view: the windowed transcript with folding and ↑/↓ nav,
-//     which the scrollback view cannot do.
 //   * the new-session composer and the loading placeholder do own their frame,
 //     so they keep the header band and the frame inset.
 //
-// Focus is modal and esc steps outward: inside the chat esc closes the browser,
-// then transcript navigation, then opens the picker. Exactly one useInput
-// handler is active at a time.
+// Focus is modal: esc in the chat opens the picker, esc in the picker goes back.
+// Exactly one useInput handler is active at a time.
 //
 // Liveness: ONE WebSocket — the focused session's, owned by its ConnectApp —
 // plus a 5s REST poll of the session list for the nav. Transcript stores are
@@ -130,7 +126,7 @@ export interface SessionsAppProps {
   initialConfigName?: string
   initialNotice?: string
   // Which sessions reach the picker. `hidden` drops it entirely — focus then
-  // never leaves the chat, so esc, ↓ at the bottom edge and ctrl+j do nothing.
+  // never leaves the chat, so esc and ↓ at the bottom edge do nothing.
   // Set under "sessionBar" in the config file.
   sessionBar: ResolvedSessionBar
   // Builds the start request for a composer-spawned session (the entry point
@@ -255,8 +251,8 @@ export function SessionsApp(props: SessionsAppProps): React.ReactElement {
   // Both openings start with the main pane focused: a connect lands you in
   // the conversation, a bare `agent` lands you in the new-session composer.
   // 'nav' = the session picker owns the keyboard, which now means it is OPEN:
-  // the session list is a screen of its own on the alternate buffer (ctrl+j, or
-  // ↓/esc out of the chat) rather than a band pinned under every frame.
+  // the session list is a screen of its own on the alternate buffer (↓ or esc
+  // out of the chat) rather than a band pinned under every frame.
   //
   // It moved there because the chat gave up its viewport: the transcript is
   // printed into the terminal's real scrollback now, and scrollback is
@@ -609,11 +605,10 @@ export function SessionsApp(props: SessionsAppProps): React.ReactElement {
       shownChats.current.add(mainPane.sessionId)
       main = (
         // The chat, owning the terminal rather than sitting in a pane: no
-        // width/height box around it and no pane props, which is what puts
-        // ConnectApp in its scrollback view (settled transcript printed into the
-        // terminal's own scrollback, native wheel and select/copy, and ctrl+r for
-        // the full-screen browser). It renders its own meta line again, since
-        // there is no header band above it to carry one.
+        // width/height box around it and no pane props, so its settled transcript
+        // prints into the terminal's own scrollback and the wheel and select/copy
+        // are the terminal's. It renders its own meta line again, since there is
+        // no header band above it to carry one.
         <ConnectApp
           key={mainPane.sessionId}
           scrollbackBreak={needsBreak}

src/ui/altScreen.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import { useApp, useStdout } from 'ink'
 // `alternateScreen` only as a render()-time option and this app has to hop
 // buffers at runtime under ONE live ink instance: the default view lives in the
 // primary buffer with its settled transcript flushed to real scrollback, and
-// the full-frame screens (picker, composer, browser) take over the alt screen
-// and hand the primary buffer back untouched on exit.
+// the full-frame screens (picker, composer) take over the alt screen and hand
+// the primary buffer back untouched on exit.
 //
 // The switch goes through ink's suspendTerminal, which is the only way to keep
 // ink's picture of the screen honest across it: suspend ERASES the current
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export function useAltScreen(active: boolean): boolean {
   const { suspendTerminal } = useApp()
   const { stdout } = useStdout()
   // Transitions are serialized: suspendTerminal throws if the terminal is
-  // already suspended, and two fast toggles (ctrl+r then esc) would otherwise
+  // already suspended, and two fast toggles (esc then enter) would otherwise
   // overlap. Errors are swallowed — failing to hop buffers must not take the
   // session down.
   const queue = useRef<Promise<void>>(Promise.resolve())

src/ui/commands.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 // forwarded. Silently sending "/stpo" to the agent as prose is the failure mode
 // that rule exists to prevent.
 
-export type CommandId = 'stop' | 'transcript' | 'sessions' | 'exit'
+export type CommandId = 'stop' | 'sessions' | 'exit'
 
 export type SlashCommand = {
   id: CommandId
@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@ export type SlashCommand = {
   detail: string
 }
 
-// Every command, in menu order: the two that act on the session first, then the
-// screens, then the way out.
+// Every command, in menu order: the one that acts on the session first, then the
+// screen, then the way out.
 export const SLASH_COMMANDS: readonly SlashCommand[] = [
   { id: 'stop', name: 'stop', detail: 'interrupt the agent, keeping the conversation' },
-  { id: 'transcript', name: 'transcript', detail: 'browse the full transcript (ctrl+r)' },
-  { id: 'sessions', name: 'sessions', detail: 'switch sessions (ctrl+j)' },
+  { id: 'sessions', name: 'sessions', detail: 'switch sessions (esc)' },
   { id: 'exit', name: 'exit', aliases: ['quit'], detail: 'leave the CLI; the session keeps running' },
 ]