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Rehearsal: Python editor window for Python cells (ui.pythonEditor) - #37
Rehearsal of the third part of a series before it is proposed upstream: four commits on the second part. Not for merging.
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New Features
Added a Python cell code editor, accessible from the formula bar, cell menu, or ui.pythonEditor command.
View line numbers, edit code, and apply changes. Unsaved edits prompt before closing or switching cells; programmatic requests that could discard edits are refused unless forced.
The editor enforces the code-length limit and prevents applying changes if the cell has changed elsewhere. If unsaved code must be closed without a prompt, it is copied to the clipboard.
The interface is available in multiple languages. Python code cannot be run from the editor.
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crates/ui-egui/src/python_window.rs
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Walkthrough
The UI adds a resizable Python editor for one workbook cell. It supports editing, applying through python.set, line numbers, input-length checks, and unsaved-change prompts. The change also adds launch paths, control-channel state, translations, tests, and documentation.
Changes: Python editor
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Summary
Editor field acceptance and gutter crates/ui-egui/src/code_editor.rs
The code editor normalizes inserted carriage returns, checks edits with an optional acceptance callback, and supports line-number gutters and fill-height layout. Tests cover rejected edits, newline normalization, and line-count helpers.
Editor target and apply workflow crates/ui-egui/src/python_window.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/python_editor.rs, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/architecture.md
The editor tracks its target cell and checks it before applying code through python.set. It handles unsaved changes, stale or hidden targets, and pending close, switch, workbook-close, and quit actions. Tests cover these paths, and the control protocol documents the command and state.
Launch paths and application lifecycle crates/ui-egui/src/{python_window.rs,lib.rs,control.rs,formula_bar.rs,python_card.rs,icons.rs}, crates/ui-egui/src/updates_ui.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/doc_windows.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/{main.rs,python_editor.rs}
The app connects the editor to the formula bar, cell menu, control channel, rendering, and close flows. It exposes editor state and includes unsaved editor code in quit and clean-state handling. Tests cover these integrations.
Translations and feature documentation crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/*, crates/ui-egui/examples/snapshot.rs, ROADMAP.md, docs/{architecture.md,control-protocol.md,function-parity.md,ui-parity.md}
Translations and documentation describe editor controls, command state, input limits, unsaved-code handling, and supported behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant FormulaBar
participant PyWindow
participant PythonSet
participant Cell
User->>FormulaBar: Select Python editor
FormulaBar->>PyWindow: Open editor for selected cell
User->>PyWindow: Edit code and select Apply
PyWindow->>Cell: Check captured cell state
PyWindow->>PythonSet: Submit code when the target is current
PythonSet->>Cell: Update Python cell
PythonSet-->>PyWindow: Return apply result
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Merge Risk: Low · up to 2b763
The Python editor's unsaved-code, Apply and quit handling check out. One small gap remains: the new ui.pythonEditor control command does not appear in the command discovery list. This does not break functionality, so the change is mergeable with that follow-up noted.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2b763
The editor preserves existing protected-cell checks and writes through the existing command without adding Python execution. Two bounded lifecycle risks remain: automatic clipboard export of unsaved code and loss of sheet identity while an open confirmation waits.
Retained concerns
Low · security · observed: When an edited target becomes hidden on a protected sheet, cleanup automatically copies the entire dirty editor buffer to the host clipboard. This introduces an external retention surface without a separate copy action. The buffer was previously visible to the same user, and clean buffers are not copied, so this is a bounded data-handling concern rather than evidence of access to previously inaccessible code.
Low · reliability · inferred: Pending Open stores a workbook UID, numeric sheet index, and cell address, but no sheet identity snapshot. Sheet commands remain available while confirmation waits. Moving or deleting the requested sheet can therefore redirect the eventual open to the current occupant of that index, which open_fresh accepts as its new comparison baseline. Subsequent editing requires another Apply and remains subject to engine protection, but the original target-ownership intent is no longer preserved.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified paths affect a draft and cells within an existing workbook session, plus host clipboard handling. The target-mismatch scenario requires same-session sheet mutation while confirmation is pending; no new tenant, service, credential, or Python-runtime authority was established by these paths.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — A dirty editor followed by a protection change reaches copy_text automatically. The test explicitly expects the complete edited buffer on the clipboard. This establishes export behavior, not access by another process or disclosure of code that was never visible to the user.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new opening routes preserve the pre-existing hidden-code predicate. Writes remain engine-owned: python.set uses the shared transaction, which checks protected-cell changes before replacing the workbook. These controls limit both identified lifecycle concerns and provide counterevidence against an authorization bypass.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The synchronous engine edit operates on a workbook copy and performs protection and array checks before assignment. The editor preserves typed code when Apply fails. These mechanisms contain ordinary command failure, but do not establish recovery after process interruption.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Preserve recovery text privately and require an explicit action before exporting it to the host clipboard, especially when protection changes hide the target.
proposed — Bind pending Open to a stable sheet identity or invalidate it on structural change, then re-resolve and validate the intended target before opening or transferring formula-bar text.
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The title names the main change: adding a Python editor window for Python cells, opened through ui.pythonEditor. The changeset adds python_window.rs, the ui.pythonEditor command routing, formula bar and cell menu entry points, code editor gutter and acceptance support, icons, translations, docs, and tests, all of which fit this main change. The word 'Rehearsal' describes the PR's purpose as a rehearsal, not the code change, but the title remains accurate about the feature.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 1478-1482: Update request_quit to check python_window::is_dirty
after settle_drafts succeeds and before handling the workbook save dialog; when
dirty, return python_window::ask with Pending::Quit so native-window quits
prompt before closing.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/python_window.rs:
- Around line 677-687: Update sync’s code-adoption path to refresh w.held only
when the cell at the window’s address is still the same cell; retain the old
w.held when a different cell has moved there, even if it contains Python code.
Add tests covering Apply, edit.undo, typing, and Ctrl+Enter applying
successfully with notice None, and another Python cell moving to the address
remaining stale and refusing Apply.
Review comments at @docs/architecture.md:
- Line 3: Remove the extra space after the opening bold marker in the “Last
updated” label on the architecture document’s metadata line, so it renders as
bold and satisfies markdownlint MD037.
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ROADMAP.md
crates/ui-egui/examples/snapshot.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/code_editor.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/formula_bar.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/de.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/el.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/fr.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ko.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/nl.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pl.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ro.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ru.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/sr.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/tr.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/uk.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/vi.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/icons.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/python_card.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/python_window.rs
crates/ui-egui/tests/it/main.rs
crates/ui-egui/tests/it/python_editor.rs
docs/architecture.md
docs/control-protocol.md
docs/function-parity.md
docs/ui-parity.md
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code_field gains three options for a larger editor. gutter puts line
numbers at the left of the code, inside the scroll area so they scroll
with it: one number per line of text, on the first row of a wrapped line,
right-aligned, with a rule between them and the code. Its width is the
last line's number of digits in the code font, so it widens at 10, 100
and 1,000 lines. Only the rows in view are painted: the rows above are
skipped with a binary search on their positions, so long code costs the
rows on screen. fill makes the field as tall as its scroll area, so a
click below the last line still lands in it.
accept lets the caller refuse an edit (it gets the text after and the
text before). apply_in_order_within checks each of the editor's own
edits on its own, in input order: a refused one is undone at once and
the pass goes on, so typing up to a limit keeps every character that
fits and a paste that would pass it is refused whole. The text field's
own edits (IME, undo, redo) are checked after it runs and undone the
same way. FieldOutput reports the gutter's width and whether an edit
was refused.
Pasted text with Windows (\r\n) or old Mac (\r) line breaks is inserted
with \n, as a cell's code is stored; a lone \r has no glyph.
The line helpers are pure functions with unit tests (line_count,
gutter_digits, the bounded apply, the pasted line breaks). There is no
error underline: nothing computes byte offsets into the text.
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Add ui.pythonEditor to the engine.commands discovery list.
The PR adds the UI-only command ui.pythonEditor (lib.rs Line 892). engine.commands lists the UI commands with a label and a parameters description. ui.pythonEditor is not in that list. MCP and control-channel clients that look up commands with engine.commands therefore cannot find it or read its parameters. They can still run it through engine.execute. In the cohort supplied for this review, the docs are the only place the command is listed.
As per coding guidelines: "Everything is a command. User-visible behaviour = a command … (id, label, ribbon path, shortcut, params doc, enabled, run) … UI-only commands live in crates/ui-egui. The control channel, CLI and MCP reach all of them."
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs around lines 635 - 660:
Add ui.pythonEditor to the UI command entries iterated by the engine.commands
discovery list, with the label “Edit in Python Editor” and a parameters
description covering its supported options and result fields. Keep the existing
command entries unchanged so clients can discover the command and its
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- Around line 503-508: Update ask so it closes the Backstage view when setting a
pending question, allowing the editor to display it immediately. Apply the same
behavior to request_close and request_open if they set pending directly, or
route those calls through ask; preserve the existing pending assignment and
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- Around line 635-660: Add ui.pythonEditor to the UI command entries iterated by
the engine.commands discovery list, with the label “Edit in Python Editor” and a
parameters description covering its supported options and result fields. Keep
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ROADMAP.md
crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/python_window.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/updates_ui.rs
crates/ui-egui/tests/doc_windows.rs
crates/ui-egui/tests/it/python_editor.rs
docs/architecture.md
docs/control-protocol.md
docs/ui-parity.md
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The formula bar shows at most five lines of code. The Python editor is a
resizable window for one Python cell's code, with line numbers and
Python colours. It opens from a button beside the formula bar's PY badge
(shown in Python mode and on a selected Python cell), from "Edit in
Python Editor" at the top of a Python cell's menu, and from the UI
command ui.pythonEditor {on?, cell?, force?}. Opened from Python mode it
takes the code typed so far, with its caret, and the formula bar's edit
ends. It shows the cell's address and its return type (Python Object or
Excel Value) above the code, and the keys, the code's length counted as
a PY formula, Apply and Close below it.
The window keeps its own copy of the code. Enter and Tab work as in
Python mode. Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) or Apply puts the code in
the cell through python.set, in the window's own workbook even when
another is active, and the window stays open; each apply is one undo
step. When python.set refuses (a table header, code that doesn't fit)
the code stays as typed and the command's message shows under it, in the
window. While the window has no changes of its own it follows the cell's
code (an undo, a commit from the formula bar); when it takes in the code
of a Python cell or an empty cell that way, it shows exactly what the
cell holds, so Apply's reference (below) follows the cell too, and
typing after an undo of Apply applies to the same cell. It follows its sheet when
sheets move or are renamed, and never takes another sheet for a deleted
one: Apply is then refused for want of the sheet, and an undo of the
deletion brings it back.
Apply writes only to the cell the window opened on. The window keeps
what the cell held when it opened it or last applied (a Python cell's
code and return type; another cell's formula, value or picture, not its
result or format), and Apply, from the button, the keys or the question
about unsaved changes, is refused when the cell holds something else: a
row or column inserted before it, inserted or deleted cells, a cut and
move, a sort or an undo can put another cell at its address, and its
code can change elsewhere. The code stays in the window, which says the
cell changed (before Apply too, once there are changes) and how to go
on. With unsaved changes in the window the reference never moves, even
when the code that arrives matches the typing: that typing was written
for the cell the window opened on. Opening the editor again on that
address starts afresh, after the usual question, and ui.pythonEditor
treats it the same way. An edit
anywhere else doesn't block Apply.
There is one editor at a time. Unsaved code is never discarded without
an answer: Esc, Close and the window's X, opening it on another cell (or
with other code from the formula bar), File > Close on its workbook,
the close button of its workbook's last native window, switching to
another workbook and quitting (the app window's close button, Quit or
Cmd+Q from the menu bar, the Dock or the system) first ask, in the
window, whether to Apply, Discard or Cancel; after Apply or Discard the
quit goes on and asks about each unsaved workbook. The restart for an
update waits for the code too. Cancel after a workbook switch goes
back to the code's workbook; Esc is Cancel. These questions are a state
of the window, so nothing programmatic opens a dialog: ui.pythonEditor
opens the window without a prompt and refuses to close it, or to open it
on another cell, while it has unsaved code, unless force: true discards
the code; file.close, window.close on the workbook's last window and
app.quit are refused for the same reason. An editor without
changes closes with its workbook or sheet, or when another workbook is
active. ui.inspect reports the window as pythonEditor.
With a native window per workbook window, each native window draws the
app with its own workbook active, so the editor is drawn only in its own
workbook's window: the one it opened in, or that workbook's most recent
one once it closes. Drawing another workbook's window neither closes a
clean editor nor counts as a switch that asks about unsaved code, and
Esc there doesn't answer the editor's question. A question the editor
asks, and an opening on another workbook's cell, bring its window
forward; the editor still closes when its workbook does.
The code can't grow past what a cell holds: the check python.set makes
(PyCode::fits, 8,192 characters as a PY formula) refuses typing and
pasting past it as it happens, with a message; code loaded longer than
that can still be shortened. Highlighting and the gutter stay cheap at
the limit: about 1 ms a frame with 8,052 characters in 195 lines, open
and typing, in the test build.
The window sits at the right below the formula bar, about 40 lines tall
when there is room, and stays inside the app window down to 600x400 (in
English and German), also after the app window shrinks. The keyboard
goes to the code once the window is drawn, and back to it after its
buttons are clicked. The button's icon is drawn in code: a window with a
column of line numbers beside lines of code.
The window's title, Edit in Python Editor (the formula bar button and
the cell menu), Unsaved changes, the questions about unsaved code (with
and without the workbook's name), the messages for code past the limit,
for a cell that changed while it was open (before Apply, and when Apply
is refused) and for code copied to the clipboard, the keys under the
code, and Apply, Discard and Cancel where a catalog lacked them, in all
18 interface catalogs. Placeholders ({cell}, {workbook}, {max},
{apply}) are kept in each.
…ontrol protocol, roadmap)
ui-parity.md gains a Python editor window row: its routes, line numbers,
Apply and Ctrl+Enter through python.set, the questions before unsaved
code is lost, the limit applied while typing and pasting, and the
600x400 fit; no error underline or output pane, since this build runs no
code. function-parity.md's Python in cells row names the window.
architecture.md describes python_window.rs, the code field's gutter and
accept check, and the questions as window state. control-protocol.md
lists ui.pythonEditor with force, the file.close refusal, and
pythonEditor in ui.inspect. ROADMAP.md records the progress.
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Rehearsal of the third part of a series before it is proposed upstream: four commits on the second part. Not for merging.
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ui.pythonEditorcommand.