From d2459356d648825932137e9c7c5c018233c565a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Danilo M." Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:42:23 +0200 Subject: docs: document code block wrapping and the copy button Records why the block style carries white-space:pre-wrap and why the padding is margins plus a spacer line: Qt's markdown stylesheet does not cover pre, and Qt ignores padding and vertical margins on it. Also describes the copy button and the constraints behind its shape, since neither a widget nor :hover is available in Qt rich text. --- README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f53d167..24a5d7f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ persistent process and toggles like a scratchpad from a Hyprland keybind. words of the question the entry was created with. - **Streaming replies** rendered token by token, formatted as markdown: headings, bold and italic, bullet and numbered lists, tables, inline code - and tinted fenced code blocks. What you type is shown exactly as typed, so - the contents of an attached file are never reflowed. + and tinted fenced code blocks. Long lines wrap rather than scrolling the + transcript sideways, and each code block carries a copy button. What you + type is shown exactly as typed, so the contents of an attached file are + never reflowed. - **Collapsed reasoning.** Presets with a reasoning budget return the model's thinking separately from its answer. It shows as a one-line `▸ thinking` summary above the reply, and clicking that expands it. Each reply collapses @@ -563,6 +565,22 @@ handed to the desktop opener. Qt renders a fenced block as one `
` element per line with no background
 of its own, so llamachat adds the tint that makes a code block read as one.
+Qt also ignores `padding` and vertical margins on `
`, so the inset comes
+from left and right margins and the room above and below from a tinted spacer
+line. Without an explicit `white-space:pre-wrap` a long line would widen the
+whole transcript: Qt's own markdown stylesheet wraps `p` and `li` but not
+`pre`, and that stylesheet is dropped when only the body fragment is kept.
+
+Each code block gets a copy button below it, on the right. Qt rich text has
+no widgets and no `:hover`, so the button is an anchor in the same internal
+scheme dispatch the thinking and search toggles use, and hovering is a
+re-render driven by `QTextBrowser.highlighted()`. It sits below the block
+because Qt cannot float it over the tint. The button is grey at rest, takes
+the highlight colour under the pointer, and becomes a green tick for a moment
+once used; the tick reverts on its own rather than standing indefinitely and
+implying the clipboard still holds that block. The text is copied from the
+source markdown, not the rendered HTML, which per-line `
` elements would
+make unrecoverable.
 
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