The F9/F10 author-coloring technique injects paired PUA sentinels into prose
source at span offsets, renders, then maps sentinels → cw-by-* spans. Two failure
modes when a span boundary met emphasis markup (characterized in session 0032):
- CASE1: a boundary strictly inside a delimiter run (a**b**c, between the two *)
split `**`, breaking markdown-it's delimiter pairing (stray <em></em>, raw **).
- CASE3: a boundary inside an emphasis run (**bold** span covering **bo) rendered
the emphasis but MISNESTED span/element (<strong>bo</span>ld</strong>).
Token-aware fix (both, per the issue #33 comment):
- injectSentinels: clamp any sentinel offset that lands strictly inside a
delimiter run (* _ ~ `) to the run's start, so a sentinel never splits a run
(CASE1). Delimiters are invisible once rendered, so this only shifts the colored
boundary across markup. Drop spans that clamp to empty.
- sentinelsToSpans: replace the naive global split/join with a walker over the
rendered HTML that emits the cw-by-* span only around TEXT runs — closing it
before any <tag> and reopening after — so a span is always well-nested within
inline elements (one span segment per text run, CASE3). Tags are copied
verbatim with any stray sentinel stripped (no Private-Use-Area char leaks).
Pure, vscode-free, deterministic (INV-33). No regression: existing colorByAuthor /
renderReview cases stay green; the common no-emphasis case is byte-identical.
222 unit + 74/5 host E2E green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ben Stull