Read match stops from layout positions, never from screen regions

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Problem

• test_a_hand_over_into_a_collapsed_file_still_lands failed intermittently on Windows: focus=2 (start 2) expanded=False, so a b press did nothing.
• The navigator turned each stop's screen region into a content row with the live scroll offset. Regions do not share one frame within a read:
  • a region lags a scroll until the next render;
  • after a scroll-only render the compositor holds a visible-only map, and the first read of an off-screen widget rebuilds the map at the live offset.
• Mid-animation the stops shift by the scroll in flight, but the last chunk's bottom (the content height) does not. Its final stop falls outside the chunk, _chunk_stops returns empty, and _go drops the press as "chunk still arriving".
• Pressing 100 to 150 ms after the collapse reproduced the CI signature every time.

Fix

• enumerate_stop_regions becomes enumerate_stop_rows: content rows from layout_offset (scroll independent), never region.
• MatchNavigator takes chunk tops from the same source (_chunk_top); _region_stops is renamed _content_stops.
• Tests that asserted on regions now assert on rows.

Performance

Both versions run in one process, on the same mounted preview, with identical stop sets:

Shape	Stops	Warm median, old → new
Dense prose, 101 chunks	900	5.09 → 4.22 ms
Table-heavy, 61 chunks	488 to 544	2.55 → 1.94 ms
Plain chunks, 40 × 60 lines	801	48.2 → 46.4 ms

Cold and post-scroll reads show the same pattern. The call sites, and so the call frequency, are unchanged.

Tests

• New, test_stops_hold_their_rows_while_a_scroll_awaits_its_render, parametrised over two compositor states. Each case asserts its own precondition, so it cannot pass vacuously:
  • unrendered: main fails it ([83] == [79, 83]).
  • visible_map: an earlier version of this fix, which derived one rendered offset, fails it.
• Pressing b after the collapse at 12 delays from 50 to 300 ms: all land.
• make batch-close: ruff, pyright, 4911 passed / 3 skipped, tmux harness green.
• Reviewed adversarially twice. A frame-equivalence probe over prose, wrapped blocks, quotes, lists, a callout, a padded fence and a table gave identical rows to the old enumeration at 7 scroll positions.

Review follow-ups

• locate() (Reading View position) measured chunk regions against the viewport, so a toggle mid-glide saved the last rendered position. It now reads virtual_region against the live scroll, the frame scroll_to_location restores in. The settled round trip is unchanged in the live app, and a new unit test fails on the old code.
• The match-landing conversion in StructuralScrollStrategy was suspected of the same mix. It does not reproduce: a landing started 100 to 150 ms into a glide computed the same target as a calm one every time, since the target is read after a render.
• CodeRabbit's row_within comment is answered on its thread: a difference of two regions from one map is scroll independent, and rows matched the settled ones mid-scroll in both compositor states.

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Match navigation now represents stops as content-row integers rather than screen-space regions. Chunk positions use layout offsets, and tests cover row enumeration, frozen chunks, and stop stability during scrolling.

Changes

Match navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Collect and verify content-row stops fnd/tui/preview_scroll.py, fnd/tui/preview/frozen.py, fnd/tui/preview/match_row.py, tests/test_match_stop_rows.py, tests/test_plain_chunk_fnd_text_type.py, tests/test_preview_frozen_chunk.py, tests/test_preview_scroll_characterization.py	enumerate_stop_rows returns sorted content-row positions for matches in live Markdown, frozen chunks, and plain text. Tests compare stop positions with layout offsets and painted match rows.
Navigate and measure content-row stops fnd/tui/match_navigator.py, tests/_failure_state.py, tests/test_match_nav_cross_section.py, tests/test_match_nav_integration.py, tests/test_match_navigator.py	MatchNavigator obtains stops through _content_stops and locates chunks through layout offsets. Navigation tests use content stops and check that chunk stops remain stable while scrolling.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0a230

Match navigation can miss or misplace a stop when a chunk freezes during scrolling. This is a narrow, recoverable case, but the row capture should be corrected before merging if feasible.

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Review comments at @fnd/tui/preview_scroll.py:
- Around line 1285-1295: Update row_within() to compute a widget’s row relative
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screen-space region values. Preserve its None behavior when the layout positions
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• fnd/tui/match_navigator.py
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• tests/_failure_state.py
• tests/test_match_nav_cross_section.py
• tests/test_match_nav_integration.py
• tests/test_match_navigator.py
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