meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-cli/src/meshbay_cli/tui/chat.py, branch main

fix(cli): make the command-line client work on Windows

2026-10-15T15:45:41Z

Its suite had only run on Linux. On Windows, against a real hub and node and from the installed meshbay-cli.exe: - secrets.enc was written in text mode (os.open without O_BINARY): every 0x0A of the ciphertext became CR LF and the saved session "does not open with its key" on the next run. - isatty() is true for NUL, so a script run with `< NUL` or by the Task Scheduler was asked questions instead of told to pass --yes; output.terminal() checks for a real console. - Ctrl+C waited for the selector loop's next timer, up to half a minute in `chat --follow`; the loop now points the signal wakeup at its self-pipe, as the proactor does. - Right-click copy and paste raised: asyncio cannot start a process on the selector loop; the clipboard tool runs in a thread. - Tab completion of remote paths ran on the default (proactor) loop, which never opens a node, and wrote in the locale encoding; the PowerShell script now reads it as UTF-8. - `get -R` into a folder past MAX_PATH died with a traceback; get, put, the resume file and the interactive mode use the extended form at each disk call, as the node does. - `groups` showed a SQLite hub's naive UTC time as local time. The opt-in end-to-end suite now runs on Windows (16 tests: Chrome found under Program Files and started with the real environment, VLC as the player, Ctrl+C through a console of its own, PowerShell 5.1 completion of an accented name). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cli): /put and /get in the interactive chat

2026-10-15T07:57:18Z

/put FILE sends one local file, relative to the current directory or absolute, into the chat's folder, then posts the application's attachment message naming it ({"text": "", "attachment": {filename, size, type}}), so the page shows it as its paperclip's. /get NAME saves a file of that folder, named from it, into the current directory, never over a file already there. The chat's folder is the page's rule: the operator's choice while its root is writable and present, else the first such root; a chat_directory_ack moves it. A line above the one written in shows the transfer's progress. Attachment messages, from the page or from /put, read as [file: name, size] in the room and in `chat`, and as an `attachment` field with --json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cli): help, and right-click copy and paste in the interactive chat

2026-10-15T07:33:28Z

help prints what --help prints; help ACTION, what ACTION --help prints. In the interactive chat a right-click on the conversation copies the text selected with the mouse, else the line under the pointer: to the terminal (OSC 52) and to the platform's clipboard tool. A right-click on the line written in pastes the system clipboard's text at the cursor, its lines side by side, read with wl-paste, xclip or xsel, pbpaste or PowerShell, else what was copied here last. The conversation is selectable with the mouse, which RichLog alone is not. The deb and rpm packages recommend wl-clipboard or xclip for the paste. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(cli): chat — Tier 2 check on the signing device, interactive room

2026-10-15T00:06:35Z

Each message's signing device is checked against the group's roster as the page checks it (a port of transport-roster.js, held to it by the parity test): chains of countersignatures walked from each account's roots, the keys accepted per account and node kept in the store, the roster read again once before a key is called changed. Only "changed" is said, under the message; --json carries every verdict. chat with no group opens the interactive chat: the groups, then one group's conversation IRC-style with pushed messages arriving live and a line to write in; Esc or /part goes back to the groups, /quit or Ctrl+Q quits. Like the bare command, it opens on the sign-in screen when nothing is stored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5