fix(composer): keep chat steady while resizing drafts

[Yoonwoo-Ha]

Change

Closes #1337.

Autosizing currently sets the live textarea's height to auto, reads its scroll height, then restores its measured height. The intermediate layout enlarges the transcript viewport and can clamp its scroll position, even when an edit does not change the final input height.

• Measure an out-of-flow, hidden, non-focusable textarea with the same width, text metrics, padding, mobile rules and scrollbar gutter. Only apply the final height to the live input.
• Preserve native textarea/IME behavior, the existing height cap and v0.4.12's pre-paint bottom correction.
• Cover soft wrapping, explicit newlines, growth/shrinkage, same-line edits, per-frame output/input spacing and a reader editing while scrolled away at 390px and 1440px.
• Freeze unsolicited demo completion only for these idle geometry cases.
• Remove the incidental CSS-source regex assertion; the real-browser font-size coverage remains.

Design reference: T3 Code's composer uses a styled Markdown editor. This deliberately retains herdr's native textarea rather than replacing its editor or IME behavior; measurement no longer changes the visible surface. No external implementation was copied for this fix.

This PR is independent of the separate Jump-to-latest intent fix. It does not include the proposed copy-selection setting, Portal changes, or a claimed fix for arbitrary upward restoration in long active/reasoning tabs.

Validation

Linux x64, Bun 1.4.2, Chrome 155; isolated worktree based on upstream b5cdbdb.

• Workflow syntax, generated types/themes, typecheck and production build: passed.
• CHROME_PATH=/opt/google/chrome/chrome bun scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts: passed, including both new composer-only cases and existing IME, paste, font-size and layout coverage.
• Separate production-build browser smoke at 390px and 1440px: three-line growth, a same-height edit and shrinkage all retained a 0px bottom gap; no browser errors.
• bun run check fast: not fully green locally — unit results were 4,459 passed, 1 failed, 8 skipped. The unchanged server/portal.test.ts case does not treat an arbitrary interpreter as a Portal script received undefined from processArgv at line 515. A focused rerun in this branch also failed; the same test passed in a separate unchanged-main control checkout and in the other independent branch's full suite. The unrelated Portal fixture adjustment in my installed checkout is intentionally not included here. This result is disclosed rather than reporting the earlier combined local build's green suite as this PR's result.
• Full integration suite and native Windows validation were not run locally; fork CI requires maintainer approval.

Review follow-up — 506006d

• Addressed the CodeRabbit finding: .composer-measure now shares the native input’s line-breaking reset and the Korean placeholder rule in src/styles.css.
• Updated all ambiguous .composer textarea selectors in the settings and PWA browser checks to .composer-text; those checks now target the editable input, not its hidden sizing field.
• Added real-browser Korean/Japanese/Chinese draft and long-placeholder height checks at 320px and 1440px. The sizing reference preserves the field’s full width, including its scrollbar gutter.

Latest local verification (supersedes the initial-revision unit result above; no Portal code or test was changed):

• Generated types/themes, typecheck and production build: passed.
• Unit suite: 4,460 passed, 0 failed, 8 skipped.
• Full composer-fit regression, including the new locale cases: passed.
• Settings-pages regression, including English/Korean/Japanese/Chinese: passed.
• Isolated PWA update regression at 1440px and 390px: passed, including cached app updates, offline recovery and unsent-draft preservation.
• Separate production-build browser smoke: a Korean near-wrap draft previously measured 84px instead of the native 60px; it now measures 60px. Draft and placeholder heights matched their native reference in all three CJK locales at both widths, with no browser errors.

Full GitHub CI and automated review are rerunning for this follow-up.

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved draft resizing for wrapped and multiline text, keeping the transcript position and composer spacing stable as drafts grow or shrink.
  • Preserved the reader’s place in the conversation while editing a draft away from the latest message.
• Tests
  • Added phone and desktop checks for composer sizing and transcript scrolling.

Composer draft height is measured with a separate hidden textarea, rather than by temporarily resizing the editable field. New phone and desktop regression scenarios check transcript positioning during draft edits.

Changes: Composer sizing and scroll behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Out-of-flow composer measurement src/components/Composer.tsx, src/components/Composer.css, src/lib/settings.test.ts	Composer measures draft height in a separate textarea that mirrors the draft and placeholder, then applies the measured height to the editable textarea. The measurement element shares the input’s sizing rules. The CSS test for input font sizes was removed.
Composer scroll geometry regressions scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts, changelog.d/composer-wrap-scroll.md	The demo regression harness freezes conversation updates and checks transcript geometry during draft growth, shrinkage, and same-line edits. It also checks that scrolling away from the latest message preserves the visible paragraph position. The changelog records the draft sizing and spacing fixes and the geometry measurements.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: devswha

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ffe0

Some CJK drafts may leave the composer at the wrong height. The change is otherwise mergeable with this localized fix or explicit owner acceptance.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Issue #1337 requires autosizing without collapsing the live textarea, stable bottom-follow spacing, same-line and growth/shrinkage coverage, and preserved reading position when scrolled away. `Compose…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files support Issue #1337. The changelog documents the fix. The regression harness adds idle geometry cases and limits completion freezing to those cases. Removing the CSS-source regex tes…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 …
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: keeping the chat position stable while composer drafts resize.
Description check		The description includes the required Change and Validation sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope, issue reference, test results, known local failure, and unrun validations.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #1337 requires autosizing without collapsing the live textarea, stable bottom-follow spacing, same-line and growth/shrinkage coverage, and preserved reading position when scrolled away. Composer.tsx now reads scrollHeight from a separate read-only, hidden, non-focusable .composer-measure textarea and applies only the resulting height to the live input. Composer.css mirrors the live input's sizing, metrics, mobile padding, and layout. The regression harness checks soft wrapping, explicit newlines, same-line edits, growth, shrinkage, resize-frame spacing, and reader position at 390px and 1440px. The existing pre-paint viewport correction remains in place, and the reported browser regression passed.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed files support Issue #1337. The changelog documents the fix. The regression harness adds idle geometry cases and limits completion freezing to those cases. Removing the CSS-source regex test is maintenance required by the shared selector change; real-browser font-size coverage remains. No unrelated Portal, Jump-to-latest, copy-selection, or arbitrary upward-restoration implementation appears in the PR diff.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @src/components/Composer.css:
- Around line 485-486: Update the line-breaking reset selector in styles.css to
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`.composer-measure` in the Korean placeholder selector so both measurement and
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