bubbleteandmd

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bubbleteandmd

Streaming Markdown for terminal programs built on bubbletea. A Go port of the ideas in llx-markdown (MIT; see NOTICE), for the terminal. First user: dun.

Status: layer 1 (streaming core: NewStream, Frame, Final) in v0.1.0. Layers 2-3 in progress.

Problem

An LLM reply arrives token by token. Rendering the whole document again per frame costs more as the reply grows, and half-written syntax (**bold, an open code fence, a link without its )) shows raw until it closes.

Design (three layers, each usable alone)

1. Streaming core. A line scanner splits the source into blocks only where a full parse would split. Blocks before the last two are final: rendered once, cached by (source, width, style). The tail is healed while streaming only — the final text renders as written — and rendered again. Lists, blockquotes, footnotes and link definitions force a wider re-render where needed. Block rendering uses glamour.
2. Directive blocks. llx-markdown's syntax, unchanged, so the same model output renders in both: > [!NOTE]-style callouts, > [!STEPS], > [!TABS] + #### panels, > [!STATS], > [!PROS]/> [!CONS], > [!DETAILS], > [!SOURCES], ```tree fences, title="…" on code fences, GFM task lists. Drawn with lipgloss. Mermaid and math show as code.
3. Interactive blocks. A bubbletea component that holds fold and tab state per block id across re-renders: fold [!DETAILS] and trees, switch tabs. While a block streams, tabs show stacked.

Plus a short format prompt that teaches a model the directive forms (like llx-markdown's answerFormatPrompt).

Use

r, err := bubbleteandmd.NewRenderer(styles.DarkStyleConfig, width) // or a raw *glamour.TermRenderer
cache := bubbleteandmd.NewCache(512)                              // one per program
s := bubbleteandmd.NewStream(r, fmt.Sprintf("dark/%d", width), cache) // one per reply
out, err := s.Frame(reply) // each time the reply grows
out, err = s.Final(reply)  // once, when the reply ends

• One Stream per reply. When the width or style changes, make a new Renderer and a new Stream with a key that names both.
• Call Final when the stream ends and show its output. Frame hides a partial table row and other half-written syntax, so the last Frame of a reply that ends in one is not the reply.
• Pass the Renderer raw. Process the source before Frame and the output after; a wrapper that trims glamour's newlines gives ErrTrimmed.
• On an error, show the raw text (after Sanitize).
• Call Sanitize on model text you render outside Stream.

Rules

• Terminal controls in the source never reach the terminal: Stream calls Sanitize first; call it yourself for text you render outside Stream.
• Healed text never reaches the stored source.
• Joined blocks must equal glamour's whole-document spacing: the final frame must not move when the stream ends (checked by a test that compares streamed and whole renders at every chunk boundary).

Documentation

Overview

Package bubbleteandmd renders streaming LLM Markdown in a terminal, for bubbletea programs. Finished blocks are rendered once and cached; only the open tail is rendered again as tokens arrive, and that tail is healed (an open fence, `**`, a half-typed link) so raw syntax does not show mid-stream. It reads llx-markdown's directive syntax (`> [!STEPS]`, `> [!TABS]`, ```tree fences …). See README.md.

Index

• Variables
• func Sanitize(src string) string
• type Cache
  • func NewCache(max int) *Cache
• type DirectiveRenderer
  • func NewRenderer(style ansi.StyleConfig, width int, opts ...glamour.TermRendererOption) (*DirectiveRenderer, error)
  • func (r *DirectiveRenderer) Render(md string) (string, error)
• type Renderer
• type Stream
  • func NewStream(r Renderer, key string, c *Cache) *Stream
  • func (s *Stream) Final(src string) (string, error)
  • func (s *Stream) Frame(src string) (string, error)

Variables

var ErrTrimmed = errors.New("bubbleteandmd: Renderer output ends a paragraph without a newline; pass a raw *glamour.TermRenderer")

ErrTrimmed is returned by Frame and Final when the Renderer ends a paragraph without its newline (a wrapper that trims glamour's output): the blocks cannot be joined as the whole document renders.

Functions

func Sanitize

func Sanitize(src string) string

Sanitize removes from src what a terminal reads as a command, not text, so model output cannot write the clipboard (OSC 52), set the title, move the cursor, clear the screen or overwrite a line. glamour v2.0.1 passes these through unchanged, in prose, tables and code.

Removed:

• C0 controls (U+0000–U+001F) except tab and newline; "\r\n" becomes "\n" and any other "\r" goes too. ESC goes, so the text of an escape sequence after it stays as plain characters.
• DEL (U+007F) and C1 controls (U+0080–U+009F), among them CSI U+009B.
• bytes that are not UTF-8 (a raw 0x9B byte is one).
• an incomplete UTF-8 sequence at the end of src: it can complete in the next chunk, so it is held back, not shown as an error.
• Unicode bidi embeddings, overrides and isolates (U+202A–U+202E, U+2066–U+2069): they reorder the text shown, so a line can read differently from its bytes (spoofing).

Everything else stays, ZWJ and emoji included.

Sanitize is prefix-stable: for any cut k, Sanitize(s[:k]) is a prefix of Sanitize(s), so a stream that grows keeps its rendered blocks. It is idempotent. Stream.Frame and Stream.Final call it; a caller that renders model text some other way must call it first.

Types

type Cache

type Cache struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Cache holds rendered stable blocks, keyed by (Stream key, block source). One Cache can serve many Streams; it is safe for concurrent use.

func NewCache

func NewCache(max int) *Cache

NewCache returns a cache of at most max rendered blocks.

type DirectiveRenderer

type DirectiveRenderer struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

DirectiveRenderer renders Markdown as glamour does, and draws llx-markdown's directive forms (callouts, steps, tabs, stats, pros and cons, details, sources, quotes with a source, file trees, titled code fences) and `$$` formulas. It satisfies Renderer, so NewStream can stream it. A document with no form and no `$$` formula renders exactly as glamour renders it.

A DirectiveRenderer is used by one goroutine at a time.

func NewRenderer

func NewRenderer(style ansi.StyleConfig, width int, opts ...glamour.TermRendererOption) (*DirectiveRenderer, error)

NewRenderer returns a renderer for style at word wrap width. opts go to glamour after the style and the word wrap; they must not change either.

func (*DirectiveRenderer) Render

func (r *DirectiveRenderer) Render(md string) (string, error)

Render renders md. An md that starts with join.Sentinel (as Stream sends every block after the first) renders its first block in not-first place.

type Renderer

type Renderer interface {
	Render(string) (string, error)
}

Renderer renders one whole Markdown document. *glamour.TermRenderer satisfies it. A Renderer is used by one goroutine at a time.

Pass a raw *glamour.TermRenderer (or a DirectiveRenderer), not a wrapper that changes its output: Stream renders each block alone and joins the pieces by the document prefix, suffix and line ends glamour writes. A wrapper that trims the newlines makes Frame and Final return ErrTrimmed. Do pre-processing on src before Frame; do post-processing on the output of Frame and Final.

type Stream

type Stream struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Stream renders one document that grows at its end. Blocks before the last two are rendered once and cached; the last two (the tail) are rendered on every call. Both first remove terminal controls (Sanitize). Frame heals the tail; Final does not. The result equals r.Render of the whole sanitized (and healed, for Frame) text.

A Stream is not safe for concurrent use.

func NewStream

func NewStream(r Renderer, key string, c *Cache) *Stream

NewStream returns a Stream that renders with r and caches stable blocks in c under key. key must name everything that changes r's output (dun: width and style). c may be shared by Streams; nil means no cache.

func (*Stream) Final

func (s *Stream) Final(src string) (string, error)

Final renders src as written, with no healing; only Sanitize applies.

func (*Stream) Frame

func (s *Stream) Frame(src string) (string, error)

Frame renders src while it is still streaming: the tail is healed (heal.Close), so half-written syntax does not show raw.