Add eca-chat-compose to compose prompts in a dedicated buffer - #299
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New markdown buffer to draft a prompt for the chat under point (or the session's last chat) instead of the inline prompt field, handy for long or multi-line prompts. C-c C-c sends the buffer content to the chat through the same eca-chat--send-prompt path as the inline prompt, C-c C-k discards it. @context/#filepath mentions complete against the server and clipboard images are yanked as @file mentions, mirroring the chat buffer. Wired into the transient menu (i). eca-chat--point-at-new-context-p now returns nil instead of a false positive when there is no context-area overlay, so compose buffers need no special-casing to use the shared completion path. Clipboard image saving is shared between the chat and compose yank handlers via the new eca-chat-media--save-clipboard-image.
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Summary
Adds
eca-chat-compose: a markdown compose buffer for drafting a chat prompt outside the inline prompt field, handy for long or multi-line prompts. This ports themulti-eca-composefeature from mymulti-ecadashboard package to coreeca, wired into the transient menu so it's reachable directly from a chat buffer, not just from that external dashboard.M-x eca-chat-composeopens a dedicated buffer targeting the chat under point (or the session's last chat when called elsewhere).C-c C-c(eca-chat-compose-send) sends the buffer content to the target chat through the sameeca-chat--send-promptpath used by the inline prompt (contexts, history, model/agent/variant/trust are all respected).C-c C-k(eca-chat-compose-cancel) discards it.@context/#filepathmentions complete against the server viaTAB, reusingeca-chat-completion-at-point.@filemention, mirroring the chat buffer's paste behavior.iunder "Chat").Two small supporting changes:
eca-chat--point-at-new-context-pnow returnsnilinstead of a false positive when there's no context-area overlay in the buffer (previouslyline-number-at-pos's nil fallback made this predicate true at any end-of-line). This lets the compose buffer share completion machinery without any advice/hack to suppress false positives.eca-chat-media--save-clipboard-imageout ofeca-chat--yank-image-handlerso the temp-file-writing logic (and its error handling) is shared between the chat and compose clipboard-paste handlers instead of duplicated.Demo
Test plan
test/eca-chat-compose-test.el(buttercup): targeting the current chat vs. the session's last chat, empty-prompt and dead-targetuser-errors, send delivers the prompt text viaeca-chat--send-promptand kills the buffer, cancel discards without sending.eca-chat--point-at-new-context-pand yank-handler refactors.batch-byte-compile) with no new warnings.use-package :vcpointed at this branch.