[kimkhoi2202]

Problem

Clicking the pencil on a citation chip to edit its comment puts the caret before the first character, so anything you type lands in front of what you already wrote. A comment too long to fit also opens on its first lines, away from where you'd continue.

To reproduce: select assistant text, click Cite, type a comment, and press Enter. Then click the chip's pencil and type.

Change

When the comment popup opens, its initialFocus now moves the caret after the last character and scrolls the box to it. Moving the caret doesn't scroll a textarea on its own, so without that line a long comment would still open on its first lines. The focus call keeps preventScroll, so the timeline doesn't move.

This runs only when the popup opens, so a caret placed mid-text stays put if focus leaves and comes back.

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so there's no prior issue or discussion: reopening a box to edit saved text shouldn't put new text in front of it. The code only ever focused the box, so the caret at the start is the browser's default rather than a product decision, and the diff comment box (DiffCommentAnnotation) already puts its caret at the end. This adds no setting or UI, and a new citation's empty box is unaffected. I found no existing issue or PR for it.

Web and desktop share this component. Mobile has no citation comment box.

Verification

Before is unmodified main @ 8760d06 and after is this branch, both in the web dev build in Chrome on macOS with replay test data, driven by scripted mouse and key input.

Reopening a saved comment	main	This PR
Caret position in a 29-character comment	0	29
Typing Thanks	ThanksYeah, you have an OK from me.	Yeah, you have an OK from me. Thanks
Scroll position of a 41-line comment, scrollable by 672px	0	672

Before	After

Also on this branch:

• Opening with the keyboard, Enter on the focused pencil, lands at the end too.
• After Escape, reopening shows the saved text with the caret at the end.
• A caret placed mid-text stays there when focus leaves and returns.
• Right-to-left text opens with the caret at its logical end.
• With two citations, each pencil opens its own comment with the caret at the end.
• A new citation still opens an empty, focused box.

Desktop. This commit in a packaged arm64 macOS build on top of nightly 0.1.7-nightly.20261101.4016 (my fork's build, which also carries other changes), with throwaway data: every check above behaved the same.

Test. From apps/web: vp test run --project browser src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.browser.test.tsx. The new case fails on main (scrollTop is 0, not 836) and passes here, along with the 3 existing cases in that file. vp run check:changed passes.

Not checked: Safari, Firefox, touch devices, Windows, and Linux. The change has nothing specific to a platform.

Written with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running in T3 Code. A separate Claude agent reviewed the diff before this PR, and its finding is fixed here.

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 432ce91

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Opening a citation comment now puts the caret at the end and scrolls it into view. The change is confined to editor presentation and leaves comment storage and submission unchanged.

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[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

When the citation comment editor opens, it focuses the input, places the caret at the end of the comment, and scrolls the input to its bottom. A browser test verifies the behavior for a saved comment without a source anchor.

Changes: Citation comment editor

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initial focus and caret placement apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.browser.test.tsx	The initial-focus handler moves the caret to the end of the comment and scrolls the input to its bottom. The browser test checks focus, scroll position, and typing at the end of a saved comment.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#23509: Adds the citation comment popover and its focused editing flow, which this change updates.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25570: Adds the R shortcut that opens the citation comment editor, whose opening behavior this change updates.
• pingdotgg/t3code#13450: Manages focus restoration around the same popover, whose initial focus behavior this change updates.

Suggested labels: size:S

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to 432ce

Update the textarea assertions to await the browser state before merging; the feature behavior itself has no established material risk.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main change: opening citation comments with the caret at the end.
Description check		The description covers the problem, reproduction steps, implementation, scope rationale, verification results, screenshots, platform checks, and limitations. It is complete and directly related to the…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[coderabbitai]

Follow-up Comments

Wait for the textarea assertions.

148-149: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Wait for the textarea assertions.

These assertions read browser state synchronously after waiting only for focus. Use vi.waitFor or expect.element for the textarea assertions.

As per coding guidelines: “Browser tests assert through expect.element or vi.waitFor.”

Also applies to: 151-151

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Review comment at
@apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.browser.test.tsx around
lines 148 - 149:
Update the textarea assertions in the test around the focus check to use
vi.waitFor or expect.element, so the scrollHeight, clientHeight, and scrollTop
expectations wait for browser state to settle.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.browser.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.tsx

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[kimkhoi2202]

Leaving CodeRabbit's nit about wrapping the textarea assertions in vi.waitFor, since there's nothing to wait for. initialFocus sets focus, caret, and scroll in one synchronous callback, so they're final by the time the test sees focus. The typing check reads the value right after await userEvent.keyboard, the same way the popup position test in this file does. A retry wouldn't make the test catch anything more.

[maria-rcks]

Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified exact head 432ce91c5dc38114917a26b475d12866c6891a9e on linux with the running web app, repo Playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, and real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. created the project and conversation through the app. no mocks, replay, fixtures, or demo data.

reproduced on github/main (e6e2ab05cc) in a separate installed worktree, then stopped its server before starting this head. matching app-created conversation and comment text:

• main: reopening Please keep this explanation. put the caret at 0 of 29; typing Thanks prepended it. a 41-line comment opened at scrollTop 0 of 672.
• pr: reopening put the caret at 29 of 29; typing appended Thanks. the same long comment opened at scrollTop 672 of 672, caret 655 of 655.
• neighboring behavior: a new citation opened empty and focused; Enter saved; Escape closed; keyboard activation reopened at the end. after placing the caret at 640, Tab then Shift+Tab retained position 640.
• submitted the edited citation through the composer. the real Codex turn returned its comment verbatim: Please keep this explanation. Thanks.

blacksmith-check ran cd apps/web && vp test run --project browser src/components/chat/AssistantCitationChip.browser.test.tsx: all 4 tests passed after installing the missing Chromium runtime on the worker. existing CI reports 31 successful checks. no source changes or pushes needed.

before on main:

after on this head:

editing, appending, saving, and reopening with the keyboard:

real provider response after submitting the edited citation:

Not verified

native Electron desktop, macOS, Windows, iOS/Android, Safari/Firefox, other providers, and relay/tunnel connections were not exercised on this Linux VM. desktop shares this web component; mobile has no citation comment editor. this pass used local Chrome in the light theme.