A message beside its open editor stands in the browser too (improvise-1x9h)

The toast hid every status after six seconds, so a refusal the user was
still fixing vanished with its prompt open: su4u's bug on a timer. The
browser now asks the TUI's question. EditorSession moves into
improvise-protocol, ClientState records which editor a status was
written in, and RenderModel::status_stands tells the toast to hold it
until that editor closes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VdfEGXA7aJ6ftMsCc9PJze

context/code/clients.md

@@ -2267,6 +2267,61 @@ reads that text. An emptied node cannot tell "nothing was said" from "something
 else was said", and the assertion would pass vacuously the moment the timer
 fired.
 
+#### A message beside its open editor stands until that editor closes (improvise-1x9h)
+
+The timer is wrong for one kind of message: a refusal the user is still
+fixing. Six seconds after it appears, the toast hid it while the minibuffer it
+was about stayed open. That is the TUI's su4u bug with a timer instead of a
+keypress, and the rule is the TUI's, so both front ends ask one question.
+
+**The rule: a message stands while the editor it was written in is still the
+open one.** "The editor" is `improvise_protocol::EditorSession`, the value the
+TUI's `press` compares before and after a key (`context/code/tui.md`, "What
+'the same editor' means"). It moved from `src/draw.rs` into the protocol crate
+so that the browser asks the same question rather than a second derivation of
+it (design principles §5).
+
+**The decision is Rust's, and the page only obeys it.** `ClientState` observes
+the status after every fold (`settle_status`, beside `settle_mode` and
+`settle_editor`):
+
+- a status that has changed since it was last observed is owned by the editor
+  open at that moment, or by nothing outside a text-entry mode;
+- an unchanged status loses its owner, for good, as soon as a different editor
+  (or none) is open.
+
+`RenderModel::status_stands` is `ClientState::status_stands()`. The page passes
+it to `createToasts.offer(text, stands)`. A standing message arms no timer. When
+it stops standing it hides at once, not six seconds later, because the TUI drops
+a refusal on the key that leaves its editor.
+
+**"For good" is the part that needs memory.** A refusal in `FormulaEdit`, then
+`Esc`, then `n` again opens an editor *equal* to the first: the same mode, the
+same cursor, no seed. Comparing the current editor with nothing would make the
+old message stand again beside the new opening. The owner is therefore
+recorded when the message is written and cleared when that editor closes, not
+recomputed from what is open now.
+
+**A status written outside a fold must be observed where it is written.**
+`socket.rs` writes a rejection's sentence *after* `refused()`, so the sentence
+survives the rollback. It now writes it through `ClientState::notify`, which
+observes it on the spot. Assigning `status_msg` directly leaves it unobserved
+until the next fold. By then the editor may have changed, and the message
+would be owned by the wrong one.
+
+**What it inherits from the identity rule above.** An identical message written
+again in a *new* editor is not a new write, so it neither stands nor re-shows.
+That is the "two identical messages show once" cost, and it has the same cause:
+nothing beside `status_msg` says that it was written again.
+
+**Where the rule is live.** A formula refusal still never reaches a browser.
+The client folds `CommitBuffer`'s optimistic "Formula added", and the host's
+error is a write to the host's own slice
+(`a_formula_the_client_cannot_parse_diverges_on_the_status_line`). What
+reaches a browser today is a host rejection that leaves the editor open, such
+as a refused save. The rule becomes fully live when a host-addressed status
+reaches its composer.
+
 ### What the styling is, and what no test here can see
 
 `web/style.css` stopped being "legibility only" and is now a small design

context/code/tui.md

@@ -505,7 +505,10 @@ and stay in the minibuffer: a `:` line that switches view settles back to
 Normal. So nothing could test the field, and an untestable field is a claim no
 test can check.
 
-**The browser is not covered by this.** There, `status_msg` is a toast that
+**The browser asks the same question (improvise-1x9h).** `EditorSession` now
-hides after `TOAST_MS` (six seconds), and the minibuffer element draws only the
+lives in `improvise-protocol` and is built from a `ViewState`, so the TUI's
-prompt and the text. A refusal therefore disappears on a timer, whatever the
+`press` and the browser's `ClientState::status_stands` compare the same value.
-user is doing. That is a different mechanism and has not been changed here.
+The browser's mechanism differs: its message is a toast on a timer, and there
+is no per-key clear. So it keeps the message's *owner* and suspends the timer
+while that owner is open. See `context/code/clients.md`, "A message beside its
+open editor stands until that editor closes".

context/test-evidence/clients.md

@@ -5117,3 +5117,60 @@ Rival injected: `claim_as_read` ignoring the captured generation and claiming
 the current one. That is the pre-fix behaviour, restated after the fix. Only
 this test failed in the whole workspace. The layout tier staying current is
 still pinned by `an_edit_writes_the_cell_the_user_clicked_after_the_rows_renumber`.
+
+### a_message_stands_while_the_editor_it_was_written_in_is_open
+
+improvise-1x9h, the browser half of improvise-su4u. In the browser,
+`status_msg` was only ever a toast, and `createToasts` hid it after `TOAST_MS`
+(six seconds) whatever the mode. A refusal written beside an open minibuffer
+therefore disappeared while the user was still fixing the thing it described.
+
+The bug was shown red in JavaScript first, where the timer lives. `shell.test.js`,
+"a standing message outlives the timer and goes with its editor", failed on the
+unchanged `createToasts` with "a standing message arms no timer". The decision
+of *whether* a message stands is Rust's, and this test pins it. It opens
+`FormulaEdit`, writes a status, and asserts that the message stands, and still
+stands after a buffer edit. Then it leaves to `FormulaPanel` and asserts that
+it does not. Then it re-opens an equal `FormulaEdit` and asserts that the
+message *still* does not stand, although `status_msg` is unchanged.
+
+- **Rival `any_editor`** (`status_stands` = non-empty status and any editor
+  open): fails this test and its sibling below, and nothing else in the
+  workspace (1943 passed, 2 failed).
+- **Rival `owner_never_lost`** (drop the `else if` that clears the owner once
+  its editor closes): fails only this test, on the re-opened equal editor.
+  That clause is what the last assertion exists for. Without it an equal
+  opening is indistinguishable from the original one.
+
+### a_message_does_not_stand_beside_an_editor_it_was_not_written_in
+
+improvise-1x9h. There are three ways to be a different editor, and one case
+each: a status written in Normal before an editor opens; a cell editor whose
+cursor then moves from (1,1) to (2,1), which is a commit that advanced; and a
+cell editor whose seed changes from `4` to `47` on the same cell, which is a
+re-opening after a commit (improvise-sx7h's `Tab` in the last column). The
+cursor sits at a nonzero row so that "the cell" is not "the first cell".
+Rival `any_editor` fails it on the first case.
+
+### a_rejection_that_arrives_in_an_open_editor_stands_beside_it
+
+improvise-1x9h. `socket.rs` writes a rejection's sentence after `refused()`,
+outside any fold, so nothing observed it. The test folds `Editing`, then a
+`Rejected(NoDocumentPath)`. A refused save rolls nothing back and closes
+nothing, so the editor is still open. It asserts that the sentence stands.
+
+- **Rival `direct_write`** (the old `state.view.status_msg = message`): fails
+  this test. The status is never observed, so it has no owner.
+
+**The DOM half.** `harness/tests/header.spec.js`, "a message written beside an
+open minibuffer outlives the timer", is the check on the wire from
+`model.status_stands` through `shell.setModel` to `toasts.offer`.
+`render_surface.test.js` cannot see that wire: it is a substring search, so it
+passes as long as `model.status_stands` appears anywhere in `app.js`. The spec
+opens the formula editor in the real demo and delivers
+`{"Commands":[{"SetStatus":"Formula error"}]}` as a worker message. It runs
+the page clock past ten seconds and asserts that the toast is still visible.
+Then it presses `Escape` and asserts that the toast hides. The rival
+`onModel: (text, stands) => toasts.offer(text)` fails it at the
+still-visible-after-ten-seconds assertion, and the node suite stays green
+under that rival.

crates/improvise-protocol/src/client.rs

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 //! The two properties this dispatch owes: `context/code/clients.md`.
 
 use crate::{
-    BasisCache, CategoryTreeCache, Command, DocumentCache, FormulaCache, GridCache, Projection,
+    BasisCache, CategoryTreeCache, Command, DocumentCache, EditorSession, FormulaCache, GridCache,
-    Rejection, Snapshot, TileBarCache, ViewListCache, ViewState, WidgetCache, reduce_view,
+    Projection, Rejection, Snapshot, TileBarCache, ViewListCache, ViewState, WidgetCache,
-    settled_mode,
+    reduce_view, settled_mode,
 };
 use serde::Serialize;
 
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ pub struct ClientState {
     /// replay the rest. Why a queue: `context/code/clients.md`.
     #[serde(skip)]
     pub in_flight: std::collections::VecDeque<Sent>,
+    /// The status text last observed, and the editor it was written in while
+    /// that editor is still open (improvise-1x9h, `context/code/clients.md`).
+    #[serde(skip)]
+    pub status_seen: String,
+    #[serde(skip)]
+    pub status_owner: Option<EditorSession>,
 }
 
 /// One frame this client has sent. `awaited` is true exactly when the host
@@ -75,6 +81,7 @@ impl ClientState {
         }
         self.settle_mode();
         self.settle_editor();
+        self.settle_status();
         self.revision += 1;
     }
 
@@ -87,6 +94,7 @@ impl ClientState {
         }
         self.settle_mode();
         self.settle_editor();
+        self.settle_status();
         self.revision += 1;
     }
 
@@ -127,9 +135,26 @@ impl ClientState {
         self.last_rejection = Some(rejection);
         self.settle_mode();
         self.settle_editor();
+        self.settle_status();
         self.revision += 1;
     }
 
+    /// Say something to this client's user: the one door for a status written
+    /// outside a fold, so it is observed where it was written.
+    pub fn notify(&mut self, message: String) {
+        self.view.status_msg = message;
+        self.settle_status();
+        self.revision += 1;
+    }
+
+    /// Whether the status belongs to the editor still open, so a renderer must
+    /// not expire it (improvise-1x9h). The TUI asks the same `EditorSession`.
+    pub fn status_stands(&self) -> bool {
+        !self.view.status_msg.is_empty()
+            && self.status_owner.is_some()
+            && self.status_owner == EditorSession::of(&self.view)
+    }
+
     /// The settled slice plus every frame still in flight, in order. What a
     /// dropped frame leaves behind is the *rest* of them, not nothing.
     fn replay(&mut self) {
@@ -177,6 +202,18 @@ impl ClientState {
         }
     }
 
+    /// A new message is owned by the editor open as it arrives; an old one loses
+    /// its owner for good once that editor is not the open one.
+    fn settle_status(&mut self) {
+        let now = EditorSession::of(&self.view);
+        if self.view.status_msg != self.status_seen {
+            self.status_seen = self.view.status_msg.clone();
+            self.status_owner = now;
+        } else if self.status_owner != now {
+            self.status_owner = None;
+        }
+    }
+
     /// The widget dispatch: a projection names the widget it is addressed to.
     /// The `CategoryTreeCache`/`TileBarCache` overlap is deliberate (gotcha 32).
     fn apply_projection(&mut self, projection: &Projection) {
@@ -435,6 +472,73 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// improvise-1x9h: a message written while an editor is open stands until
+    /// that editor closes, and never again after. Evidence file.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_message_stands_while_the_editor_it_was_written_in_is_open() {
+        let mut state = ClientState::default();
+        state.fold(&Command::ChangeMode(crate::AppMode::formula_edit()));
+        state.fold(&Command::SetStatus("Formula error".into()));
+        assert!(
+            state.status_stands(),
+            "a refusal beside its editor must stand"
+        );
+        state.fold(&Command::SetBuffer {
+            name: "formula".into(),
+            value: "Total = ".into(),
+        });
+        assert!(state.status_stands(), "typing is the same editor");
+
+        state.fold(&Command::ChangeMode(crate::AppMode::FormulaPanel));
+        assert!(!state.status_stands(), "the refusal outlived its editor");
+        state.fold(&Command::ChangeMode(crate::AppMode::formula_edit()));
+        assert_eq!(state.view.status_msg, "Formula error", "nothing cleared it");
+        assert!(
+            !state.status_stands(),
+            "an equal editor opened later is another opening, and the message is not its"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The editor is the one it was WRITTEN in: not any editor, and not the next
+    /// cell's after a commit advances (improvise-1x9h, sx7h). Evidence file.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_message_does_not_stand_beside_an_editor_it_was_not_written_in() {
+        let mut state = ClientState::default();
+        state.fold(&Command::SetStatus("saved".into()));
+        state.fold(&Command::ChangeMode(crate::AppMode::editing()));
+        assert!(
+            !state.status_stands(),
+            "written in Normal, it is the timer's"
+        );
+
+        let mut state = ClientState::default();
+        state.fold(&Command::SetSelected { row: 1, col: 1 });
+        state.fold(&Command::ChangeMode(crate::AppMode::editing()));
+        state.fold(&Command::SetStatus("a note about this cell".into()));
+        assert!(state.status_stands());
+        state.fold(&Command::SetSelected { row: 2, col: 1 });
+        assert!(
+            !state.status_stands(),
+            "the note followed the editor down a row"
+        );
+
+        let mut state = ClientState::default();
+        state.fold(&Command::SetSelected { row: 1, col: 1 });
+        state.fold(&Command::ChangeMode(crate::AppMode::editing()));
+        state.fold(&Command::SetOpenedEditor(Some(crate::OpenedEditor::on(
+            "4".into(),
+        ))));
+        state.fold(&Command::SetStatus("a note about this cell".into()));
+        assert!(state.status_stands());
+        state.fold(&Command::SetOpenedEditor(Some(crate::OpenedEditor::on(
+            "47".into(),
+        ))));
+        assert!(
+            !state.status_stands(),
+            "a re-opening on the same cell is another editor"
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn every_fold_bumps_the_revision_so_a_renderer_can_poll_it() {
         let mut state = ClientState::default();

crates/improvise-protocol/src/lib.rs

@@ -554,6 +554,27 @@ impl ViewState {
     }
 }
 
+/// What one opening of a minibuffer sets. Equal at two moments means the same
+/// editor is still open; both front ends ask this. `context/code/tui.md`.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub struct EditorSession {
+    mode: AppMode,
+    cell: (usize, usize),
+    seed: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl EditorSession {
+    /// The editor open in `view`, or `None` outside a text-entry mode.
+    pub fn of(view: &ViewState) -> Option<Self> {
+        view.mode.minibuffer()?;
+        Some(Self {
+            mode: view.mode.clone(),
+            cell: view.cursor().selected,
+            seed: view.opened_editor.as_ref().map(|o| o.seed.clone()),
+        })
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod boundary_tests {
     /// improvise-cqi AC 2: the part of the boundary the compiler can hold.

crates/improvise-wasm-client/src/render.rs

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ pub struct RenderModel {
     /// The mode's own label, off `AppMode` — the client does not spell it.
     pub mode: String,
     pub status: String,
+    /// Whether `status` belongs to the editor still open, so the page must not
+    /// expire it on a timer (improvise-1x9h).
+    pub status_stands: bool,
     /// The document's active view, as this client knows it (gotcha 29).
     pub view_name: String,
     /// The title bar: the document's name, whether it has unsaved changes, and
@@ -238,6 +241,7 @@ pub fn render_model(state: &ClientState) -> RenderModel {
         revision: state.revision,
         mode: improvise_protocol::mode_label(&state.view.mode).to_string(),
         status: state.view.status_msg.clone(),
+        status_stands: state.status_stands(),
         view_name: state.view.active_view.clone(),
         doc_name: state.document.name.clone(),
         doc_dirty: state.document.dirty,

crates/improvise-wasm-client/src/socket.rs

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ impl Client {
                 // The sentence goes on *after* the rollback: it is this
                 // client's own notification, and the slice it restores has none.
                 state.refused(rejection);
-                state.view.status_msg = message;
+                state.notify(message);
             }
             ServerFrame::Accepted => self.state_mut().accepted(),
         }
@@ -195,6 +195,26 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// A rejection's sentence is written outside a fold, so it must still be owned
+    /// by the editor it arrived in (improvise-1x9h). Evidence file.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_rejection_that_arrives_in_an_open_editor_stands_beside_it() {
+        let mut client = Client::default();
+        client
+            .state_mut()
+            .fold(&Command::ChangeMode(improvise_protocol::AppMode::editing()));
+        client.fold_frame(ServerFrame::Rejected(Rejection::NoDocumentPath));
+        assert!(
+            client.state().view.mode.is_editing(),
+            "a refused save closes nothing"
+        );
+        assert!(!client.state().view.status_msg.is_empty());
+        assert!(
+            client.state().status_stands(),
+            "the refusal was not observed where it arrived, so it would expire"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// A rejection that refused an **edit** must say nothing was applied; the
     /// two `Save` answers refused none. Evidence: clients.md (improvise-8uj8).
     #[test]

harness/tests/header.spec.js

@@ -182,4 +182,38 @@ test.describe("the app bar is reserved, not fitted", () => {
     const toast = await page.locator("#toast").boundingBox();
     expect(toast.y + toast.height).toBeLessThanOrEqual(alone.y);
   });
+
+  // improvise-1x9h. Whether a message stands is Rust's answer; this is the
+  // wire from the render model to the toast's timer, which node cannot see.
+  test("a message written beside an open minibuffer outlives the timer", async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.addInitScript(() => {
+      const Real = window.Worker;
+      window.Worker = class extends Real {
+        constructor(...args) {
+          super(...args);
+          window.__worker = this;
+        }
+      };
+    });
+    await page.clock.install();
+    await theDemo(page);
+
+    await page.keyboard.press("F");
+    await page.keyboard.press("n");
+    await expect(page.locator("#mode")).toHaveText("FORMULA");
+    // A host message arriving during text entry has no keyboard route in the
+    // demo, so the frame is delivered as the worker would deliver it.
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+      const frame = JSON.stringify({ Commands: [{ SetStatus: "Formula error" }] });
+      window.__worker.dispatchEvent(new MessageEvent("message", { data: frame }));
+    });
+    await expect(page.locator("#toast")).toContainText("Formula error");
+
+    await page.clock.runFor(10_000);
+    await expect(page.locator("#toast")).toBeVisible();
+
+    await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+    await expect(page.locator("#mode")).toHaveText("FORMULAS");
+    await expect(page.locator("#toast")).toBeHidden();
+  });
 });

src/draw.rs

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ use ratatui::{
 };
 
 use crate::command::key;
+use crate::protocol::EditorSession;
 use crate::ui::app::{App, AppMode, MinibufColor};
 use crate::ui::category_panel::CategoryContent;
 use crate::ui::formula_panel::FormulaContent;
@@ -102,41 +103,17 @@ pub fn run_tui(
 /// One keypress in the TUI. A message lasts until the next key (improvise-cq3d),
 /// except while one editor stays open under it (su4u, sx7h). `context/code/tui.md`.
 fn press(app: &mut App, key: key::KeyEvent) -> Result<()> {
-    let before = EditorSession::of(app);
+    let before = EditorSession::of(&app.view_state);
     let stale = app.view_state.status_msg.clone();
     app.apply_effects(vec![Box::new(crate::ui::effect::SetStatus(String::new()))]);
     app.handle_key(key)?;
-    let still_editing = before.is_some() && before == EditorSession::of(app);
+    let still_editing = before.is_some() && before == EditorSession::of(&app.view_state);
     if still_editing && app.view_state.status_msg.is_empty() && !stale.is_empty() {
         app.apply_effects(vec![Box::new(crate::ui::effect::SetStatus(stale))]);
     }
     Ok(())
 }
 
-/// What one opening of a minibuffer sets, which is all the TUI loop can see of
-/// it: equal before and after a key means the same editor (improvise-sx7h).
-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
-struct EditorSession {
-    mode: AppMode,
-    cell: (usize, usize),
-    seed: Option<String>,
-}
-
-impl EditorSession {
-    fn of(app: &App) -> Option<Self> {
-        app.view_state.mode.minibuffer()?;
-        Some(Self {
-            mode: app.view_state.mode.clone(),
-            cell: app.cursor().selected,
-            seed: app
-                .view_state
-                .opened_editor
-                .as_ref()
-                .map(|o| o.seed.clone()),
-        })
-    }
-}
-
 // ── Key event conversion (TUI boundary) ──────────────────────────────────────
 
 // The only place crossterm's key types and `command::key` may both appear.
@@ -604,8 +581,9 @@ fn draw_welcome(f: &mut Frame, area: Rect) {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod bottom_bar_tests {
-    use super::{EditorSession, draw_bottom_bar, minibuffer_line, press};
+    use super::{draw_bottom_bar, minibuffer_line, press};
     use crate::command::key::{KeyCode, KeyEvent, KeyModifiers};
+    use crate::protocol::EditorSession;
     use crate::ui::app::{App, AppMode};
     use crate::workbook::Workbook;
     use ratatui::{Terminal, backend::TestBackend, layout::Rect};
@@ -837,14 +815,14 @@ mod bottom_bar_tests {
         let mut app = App::new(Workbook::new("T"), None);
         let item_add = |category: &str| AppMode::item_add(category.into());
         app.view_state.mode = item_add("Region");
-        let region = EditorSession::of(&app);
+        let region = EditorSession::of(&app.view_state);
         assert!(region.is_some(), "ItemAdd is a text-entry mode");
         app.view_state.mode = item_add("Month");
-        assert_ne!(region, EditorSession::of(&app));
+        assert_ne!(region, EditorSession::of(&app.view_state));
         app.view_state.mode = item_add("Region");
         assert_eq!(
             region,
-            EditorSession::of(&app),
+            EditorSession::of(&app.view_state),
             "and the same one is the same"
         );
     }

web/app.js

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ const shell = createShell({
     // it stays reachable rather than being lost to the cap.
     el.status.title = text;
   },
-  onModel: (text) => toasts.offer(text),
+  onModel: (text, stands) => toasts.offer(text, stands),
   timeoutMs: HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS,
 });
 // The harness asks whether the watchdog is ARMED, because a negative assertion
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ function repaint() {
   el.hint.textContent = model.hint;
   paintHelp(model);
   paintMinibuffer(model);
-  shell.setModel(model.status);
+  shell.setModel(model.status, model.status_stands);
   el.viewName.textContent = model.view_name;
   // The title bar, off the cache `src/draw.rs::draw_title` folds — one
   // derivation, both front ends (improvise-z754, improvise-5jna).

web/shell.js

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ export const TOAST_MS = 6000;
 
 /** `ViewState::status_msg` is STATE, not an event: a repaint re-offers the
  *  string that is already on screen, so dismissal keys off message IDENTITY
- *  and never off a timer alone. What that costs: context/code/clients.md. */
+ *  and never off a timer alone. What that costs: context/code/clients.md.
+ *
+ *  `stands` is Rust's answer (`RenderModel::status_stands`): while it holds the
+ *  message is on no timer, and when it stops the message goes (improvise-1x9h). */
 export function createToasts({
   onShow,
   onHide,
@@ -28,12 +31,21 @@ export function createToasts({
   // mechanism: a repaint offering it again is recognised and dropped.
   let offered = "";
   let timer = null;
+  let standing = false;
 
   return {
-    offer(text) {
+    offer(text, stands = false) {
       const next = text ?? "";
-      if (next === offered) return;
+      if (next === offered) {
+        // Standing ends once: the editor it belonged to has closed.
+        if (standing && !stands) {
+          standing = false;
+          onHide();
+        }
+        return;
+      }
       offered = next;
+      standing = next !== "" && stands;
       clearTimer(timer);
       timer = null;
       if (next === "") {
@@ -41,6 +53,7 @@ export function createToasts({
         return;
       }
       onShow(next);
+      if (standing) return;
       timer = setTimer(() => {
         timer = null;
         onHide();
@@ -349,8 +362,8 @@ export function createShell({
     setShell(text) {
       onShell(text);
     },
-    setModel(text) {
+    setModel(text, stands = false) {
-      onModel(text);
+      onModel(text, stands);
     },
     /** A peer that never answers the handshake. Deliberately about the *first
      *  frame*, not either peer's own failure modes — clients.md. */

web/tests/shell.test.js

@@ -125,6 +125,61 @@ test("a host that clears the status hides the toast without waiting", () => {
   assert.equal(clock.count(), 0, "a cleared message leaves no timer behind");
 });
 
+/// improvise-1x9h: a message that stands beside an open editor is the user's
+/// until the editor closes, not the timer's. Evidence: clients.md.
+test("a standing message outlives the timer and goes with its editor", () => {
+  const clock = fakeClock();
+  const shown = [];
+  let visible = false;
+  const toasts = createToasts({
+    onShow: (t) => {
+      shown.push(t);
+      visible = true;
+    },
+    onHide: () => {
+      visible = false;
+    },
+    ttlMs: 6000,
+    setTimer: clock.setTimer,
+    clearTimer: clock.clearTimer,
+  });
+
+  toasts.offer("Formula error", true);
+  assert.equal(clock.count(), 0, "a standing message arms no timer");
+  clock.fire();
+  assert.equal(visible, true, "the refusal hid while its editor was open");
+  toasts.offer("Formula error", true);
+  assert.deepEqual(shown, ["Formula error"], "a repaint is not a second event");
+
+  toasts.offer("Formula error", false);
+  assert.equal(visible, false, "the refusal outlived its editor");
+  assert.equal(clock.count(), 0, "leaving hides now, not on a timer");
+  toasts.offer("Formula error", true);
+  assert.equal(visible, false, "a message that stopped standing came back");
+});
+
+/// The other direction: a message that does not stand is on the timer exactly
+/// as before (improvise-1x9h).
+test("a message that does not stand keeps its timer", () => {
+  const clock = fakeClock();
+  let visible = false;
+  const toasts = createToasts({
+    onShow: () => {
+      visible = true;
+    },
+    onHide: () => {
+      visible = false;
+    },
+    ttlMs: 6000,
+    setTimer: clock.setTimer,
+    clearTimer: clock.clearTimer,
+  });
+  toasts.offer("Formula added", false);
+  assert.equal(clock.count(), 1);
+  clock.fire();
+  assert.equal(visible, false);
+});
+
 test("an empty status on the first frame shows nothing", () => {
   // The common case: every repaint before any command offers "". A feed that
   // treated the first offer as new would flash an empty toast on load.