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Addresses #302 (the whole issue — see Scope for why nothing is deferred).

#294 collapsed the side bar on the focus change itself, so a click that passes through the panel on its way to the editor took the panel out from under the pointer. The collapse now waits out a short grace delay and is cancelled outright if focus comes back.

What's here

SidebarDwell (src/app/sidebar_dwell.rs) — a small "focus left, but only just" timer, following HoverDwell: now is a parameter rather than read from the clock inside, so the whole state machine tests without sleeping.

The anchor is set when focus FIRST leaves and deliberately not re-stamped while it stays away. Re-arming every frame would push the deadline out forever and the collapse would never fire — the trap the issue names, and the one its unit test re_arming_does_not_push_the_deadline pins by driving three re-arms inside the window.

Arming vs firing (maybe_auto_hide_sidebar / tick_sidebar_auto_hide) — the focus move now only arms; tick_sidebar_auto_hide delivers the collapse from the frame loop beside the other tick_* methods, returning bool so the frame redraws. Focus landing back on Pane::Tree disarms.

The pin interaction — the part that is new work rather than a port. #294's sidebar_pinned_open is a one-shot exemption consumed by "the next collapse attempt". With a timer that stops being a single well-defined event: arming and firing are now different moments, and consuming the pin at arm time would let an attempt the dwell cancels silently spend a deliberate reveal's protection. It is consumed where the collapse actually happens, and arming_a_collapse_does_not_consume_the_reveal_pin pins that.

The tick also re-checks sidebar_auto_hide_allowed() at fire time rather than trusting the arm-time state — every suppression (drag, modal, Zen Mode, hidden activity bar) can begin during the window.

Red/Green

Written test-first. The red run, verbatim, against unmodified origin/main:

test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 3 failed; 0 ignored; 3594 filtered out
panicked at tests.rs:31080: the sidebar stays up for the length of the grace delay
panicked at tests.rs:31132: arming a collapse must not spend the exemption — only firing one does

Those are behavioural assertions, not compiler output: an earlier attempt failed with nine error[E0599]: no method named tick_sidebar_auto_hide_at, which is not a valid red — the tests never ran. The red-phase tests were rewritten against the existing public surface (focus_pane, show_tree, sidebar_pinned_open) so they fail on missing behaviour; the timing-precision assertions live in sidebar_dwell's unit tests, written after the struct existed and honestly labelled as such.

Each red-phase test asserts sidebar_auto_hide_allowed() before acting, so "it stayed up" cannot pass vacuously against a sidebar that could never have collapsed. On the pin test that guard runs before the pin is banked, since the pin itself makes sidebar_auto_hide_allowed() false.

Five existing tests changed contract

They assert focus_pane(Editor) → immediately !show_tree, which is exactly what this PR replaces. Each was checked against "does it protect a guarantee that still holds?" — all five do, so all five keep every assertion and gain the tick that now delivers the collapse:

test assertions before after
the_reveal_exemption_is_consumed_rather_than_sticky 3 5
auto_hide_collapses_on_editor_focus_and_deliberate_actions_restore_it 6 9
a_reveal_while_auto_hide_is_off_does_not_bank_an_exemption 3 4
reveal_in_explorer_shows_a_collapsed_sidebar 2 2
the_real_cmd_b_keypress_reveals_and_holds_the_sidebar 5 5

Counted against git show origin/main:src/app/tests.rs. None lost an assertion — a test that keeps all of them and gains a step is a timing change; one that loses an assertion is a deleted guarantee wearing the same diff shape.

Two of the five (reveal_in_explorer_…, the_real_cmd_b_keypress_…) were found only by the full suite — a targeted filter found three. Worth stating because a filter can only find the tests you thought of.

Acceptance criteria

  • Clicking through the panel into the editor does not collapse it.
  • Leaving the panel and staying away still collapses it, once.
  • A deliberate reveal still survives the focus move that follows it (the_real_cmd_b_keypress_reveals_and_holds_the_sidebar, driving the real keypress).
  • The timer is disarmed when the panel collapses, so reopening it does not immediately take it back down.

Scope

Nothing deferred; this closes #302's acceptance list. The issue's third suggestion — a reason-carrying suppression enum so the UI can say why the panel is held open — is deliberately not here: it is a UI affordance with no consumer yet, and sidebar_auto_hide_allowed() returning bool keeps the suppression list one readable early-return chain. Worth revisiting when something actually wants to display the reason.

Auto-hide is undocumentedgrep -rli 'auto.hide' docs/ *.md returns nothing, with a control (sidebar matches three docs) proving the search works. #294 shipped the feature, its palette command, the Customize Layout row and the pref without a word in LAYOUT.md or KEYBINDINGS.md. That is #294's debt rather than this PR's, and documenting the whole suppression matrix inside a 400ms-window change would make one PR do two unrelated things: filed as #308, sequenced to land after this so it does not document a behaviour that is about to change.

Testing

5 unit tests in sidebar_dwell.rs (threshold, unarmed-never-due, re-arm-does-not-push-the-deadline, disarm-cancels, re-arm-after-disarm-starts-fresh) and 3 app tests (click-through cancellation, arm-not-collapse, pin-not-consumed-on-arm), plus the 5 contract-updated tests above.

cargo fmt --check clean, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, and the full suite green at RUST_TEST_THREADS=4 (matching CI's pin):

FMT_CHECK=0  CLIPPY=0  BUILD=0
test result: ok. 3592 passed; 0 failed; 10 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 108.43s

Note on fmt: the first verification failed fmt --check on a misordered use and an unwrapped assert! — build, clippy and tests were all green at the time. Running cargo fmt REPAIRS and is not evidence; the --check that follows it is.

An earlier run of the same tree failed one unrelated test, widgets::terminal::tests::pending_bytes_counts_advanced_output_and_resets_on_take_dirty, which passed on the re-run above. It spawns a real /bin/echo and polls a fixed 4000ms budget for output, so it is load-sensitive rather than broken — this diff contains zero references to pending_bytes and does not touch terminal.rs (control: the same diff has 18 sidebar_dwell hits, so the grep works). It is a fourth instance of the pattern tracked in #307.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved sidebar auto-hide behavior with a brief grace period when moving focus into the editor or terminal.
    • Prevented unintended click-through when the sidebar collapses.
    • Preserved one-time sidebar reprieves across interruptions and focus changes.
    • Improved behavior during dragging, Zen Mode, manual reveals, programmatic focus changes, and activity-bar visibility changes.
    • Ensured pending auto-hide actions are canceled when appropriate and retried safely when temporary suppression ends.
  • Release Notes

    • Updated highlights for the sidebar auto-hide improvements.

#294 collapsed on the focus change itself, so a click passing THROUGH the
panel on its way to the editor took it away under the pointer. The collapse
now waits out a short dwell and is cancelled if focus returns.

`SidebarDwell` follows `HoverDwell`: `now` is a parameter, so the timer tests
without sleeping. The anchor is set when focus FIRST leaves and deliberately
not re-stamped while it stays away — re-arming per frame would push the
deadline out forever and the collapse would never fire.

The pin interaction is the new work rather than a port. #294's one-shot
exemption is consumed by "the next collapse attempt", which stops being a
single event once arming and firing are separate moments. Consuming it at arm
time would let an attempt the dwell CANCELS silently spend a deliberate
reveal's protection, so it is consumed where the collapse actually happens.
The tick also re-checks `sidebar_auto_hide_allowed()` at fire time, since
every suppression can begin during the window.

Written test-first: the three app tests failed against unmodified main on
behavioural assertions (an earlier attempt failed on nine E0599s, which is not
a valid red — the tests never ran), so they are written against the existing
public surface and the timing assertions live in the timer's own unit tests.

Five existing tests asserted the immediate collapse. Each protects a guarantee
that still holds, so each keeps every assertion and gains the tick that now
delivers the collapse; counted against origin/main, none lost an assertion.
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The sidebar auto-hide flow now waits 400 ms before collapsing. Focus return, suppression, deliberate toggles, reveal pins, activity-bar changes, and Zen Mode cancel pending collapse. Tests cover timer behavior and application integration.

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Sidebar auto-hide

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dwell timer state machine
src/app/sidebar_dwell.rs
SidebarDwell records the first arm time, checks the configured threshold, and supports disarming and re-arming. Unit tests cover boundary timing and cancellation.
Application dwell integration
src/app/mod.rs
Focus changes arm or cancel the timer. The application retries suppressed collapses, consumes reveal pins only for actual collapses, disarms on toggles and Zen Mode entry, and redraws after timer-driven changes.
Behavior validation and release metadata
src/app/tests.rs, src/release_notes.rs, Cargo.toml
Tests cover delayed collapse, focus pass-through, suppression, reveal pins, setting changes, activity-bar changes, and Zen Mode. Release notes and the package version were updated.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c5bae

The PR changes sidebar auto-hide to use a grace-period timer while preserving cancellation and reveal-pin behavior; checks and tests are green, and the remaining feedback is only a non-blocking refactoring opportunity, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FocusTarget
  participant App
  participant SidebarDwell
  participant Sidebar
  FocusTarget->>App: focus leaves sidebar
  App->>SidebarDwell: arm(now)
  App->>SidebarDwell: check due(now, AUTO_HIDE_DWELL)
  SidebarDwell-->>App: dwell elapsed
  App->>Sidebar: collapse when eligible
  App->>SidebarDwell: disarm()
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #302. It adds a testable approximately 400 ms dwell, anchors timing on the first focus departure, cancels on focus return, preserves valid reveal pins, rechecks supp…
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The implementation satisfies issue #302. It adds a testable approximately 400 ms dwell, anchors timing on the first focus departure, cancels on focus return, preserves valid reveal pins, rechecks suppression conditions, and disarms after collapse or relevant state changes. Tests cover the required interactions.

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…the collapse

The one-shot pin a Cmd+B reveal banks was spent by `std::mem::take` before
`sidebar_auto_hide_allowed()` was consulted, so any tick that declined for an
unrelated reason burned it: a seam drag, an open palette, a modal, an Explorer
drag. The suppression clears a moment later and the next collapse proceeds
unpinned — the user's reveal loses its protection without ever having been
honoured. Every EARLY decline already left the pin alone; only this late one
spent it.

Hoist the predicate above the take so a tick that will not collapse spends
nothing, making the late decline behave like the early ones. The pin check
inside `sidebar_auto_hide_allowed()` is removed rather than kept: with the
hoist it would run while the pin is still set, make the predicate false, and
return before the take — a self-sustaining pin that no collapse could ever
spend. The pin is the caller's concern, and there is exactly one caller.

Follow `toggle_side_bar`'s existing precedent for structural suppression:
refuse to bank a pin under Zen Mode or a hidden activity bar, the same way it
already refuses when auto-hide is off. That guard is the codebase's answer to
"a pin that sits unconsumed and later eats a collapse", so the rule stays in
one place rather than splitting across bank-time and spend-time. The two
conditions cover different routes — Customize Layout hides the activity bar
without touching Zen or the sidebar — and a negative control confirms the
guard fails when either is removed.
…ferred

`without_auto_hide` suppresses auto-hide for focus moves the user did not ask
for — an async MCP result, a launch-time file open, Enter on a sidebar row —
by setting `sidebar_auto_hide_suspended` for the duration of a closure. That
worked because the collapse decision happened synchronously INSIDE the
closure, where the flag is true.

Deferring the collapse behind the #302 grace timer moved that decision to tick
time, which runs from `main_loop` long after the closure restored the flag to
false. So every programmatic focus move began collapsing the side bar ~400ms
later: the flapping #260 exists to prevent, reintroduced by the fix for #302.
Read the flag when ARMING instead — it is scoped to the closure, so there is
nothing left to consult once the window elapses.

The regression was invisible because the test covering it went vacuous without
being edited. `auto_hide_yields_to_real_modal_overlays_and_explorer_drags`
asserted `show_tree` immediately after the focus move, which deferral makes
trivially true for any implementation, suppressed or not. Three more tests had
the same shape. All four now tick past the delay, and each was verified to
FAIL when the specific guard its assertion depends on is reverted — the drag
case needed the `splitter_drag` suppression removed rather than the flag, and
its teeth live at the tick assertion rather than the earlier `allowed()` one.
`tick_sidebar_auto_hide_at` disarmed the dwell before asking
`sidebar_auto_hide_allowed()`, so a collapse blocked by a seam drag, an open
palette or a modal was abandoned rather than deferred. Nothing re-arms the
timer but a fresh focus move into the editor or terminal, so a user whose
palette happened to be open when the grace window elapsed kept a side bar that
never auto-hid again for the rest of the session.

The comment three lines below already described the intended behaviour — "the
pin survives to do its job a moment later" — which the disarm made impossible.
Ask first, disarm only once a collapse is actually due. Retrying costs nothing:
`main_loop` ticks on an 8ms cadence, so the collapse lands as soon as the
suppression lifts.

Two test fixes from the same review, both verified rather than assumed:

`a_click_passing_through_the_sidebar_does_not_collapse_it` did not pin the
`Pane::Tree` disarm it was written for — deleting that disarm left it passing,
because the tick independently early-returns on `focus == Pane::Tree`. It now
asserts `!sidebar_dwell.armed()` directly, which is the only observable that
distinguishes "cancelled" from "declined for an unrelated reason".

`leaving_the_sidebar_arms_a_collapse_rather_than_doing_it_immediately` sampled
its reference instant AFTER the arm it measures from, so its deadline was
later than the true anchor and its teeth held by microseconds and by accident.
Sampled before the arm now.

The new test earned its own red: `maybe_auto_hide_sidebar` stamps the anchor
with its own `Instant::now()` rather than an injected clock, so a deadline
computed from a timestamp taken microseconds earlier is never due and the tick
declines as not-yet-due — indistinguishable from the suppression working. Both
ticks now share one deadline past any real anchor, so the only difference
between them is the palette.
… hand

Deferring the collapse gave the dwell a lifetime, and neither `toggle_side_bar`
nor `toggle_zen_mode` accounted for it: both change `show_tree` without
touching the timer, so a pending collapse outlived the sidebar state it was
armed against.

Once a declined tick stays armed — the transient-suppression retry added in
95c46ec — that becomes user-visible. Focus moves to the editor and arms a
collapse; a palette opens during the grace window so the tick declines and
stays armed; the user closes it and then hides and re-reveals the sidebar with
Cmd+B. The reveal banks its one-shot pin, and the very next idle frame tick
finds the stale dwell due, spends the pin, and reports no collapse. The user
never saw one. Their next move into the editor then takes the sidebar down —
#294, reached by a different door, in the feature that exists to prevent it.

Zen Mode is the same root cause with a longer fuse. The tick's "stay armed"
comment justifies itself on the suppressions being transient, which holds for
a drag, a palette or a modal but not for Zen or a hidden activity bar. Those
can last a session, and a dwell left armed fires on the frame Zen exits.

Disarm at both sites: a deliberate toggle supersedes a pending automatic one,
and a structural suppression cancels rather than defers. Five disarm sites now
where there were three.

Both tests were verified to fail against the specific guard each depends on:
the manual-reveal test at the pin-spending assertion with `toggle_side_bar`
unpatched, the Zen test at its own final assertion with only the Zen disarm
reverted.

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Comment thread src/release_notes.rs
The pin is taken by either reveal binding — tests.rs:31017 asserts "Ctrl+B
pins exactly as Cmd+B does" — but the note named only Cmd+B, so a Linux or
Windows user would not recognise the feature they have.

Found by CodeRabbit's review of 2da866c.
…ning seams

External review of effcb4e found the PR's central mechanism untested. Every one
of the 23 app-level `tick_sidebar_auto_hide_at` call sites passed a deadline of
AUTO_HIDE_DWELL or beyond — *2, *3, *5, *20, *1000 — and not one ticked INSIDE
the window. So every app test passed against a zero-length delay, which is
#294's immediate collapse delivered through a tick. Deleting the `due()` check
left all of them green: the tests pinned the plumbing, not the feature.

`a_collapse_does_not_fire_inside_the_grace_window` ticks at half a window and
asserts no collapse, then past the window and asserts one. It stamps its
reference instant BEFORE the arm, because `maybe_auto_hide_sidebar` anchors on
its own `Instant::now()` and a later stamp can land outside the real window and
decline as not-yet-due for the wrong reason. Verified by removing the `due()`
check: it fails at the mid-window assertion, and it is the only app test that
does.

Two more instances of the class this PR keeps producing — state whose lifetime
the deferral extended:

`toggle_sidebar_auto_hide` never disarmed, so turning the feature off during
the grace window and on again later let an idle tick collapse with no focus
move of the user's own. Its own comment promises the opposite: turning it on
"takes effect at the next focus move rather than retroactively yanking it away".

`MenuAction::ToggleActivityBar` flips `activity_bar_visible` independently of
Zen Mode and disarmed nothing, so a collapse armed while the bar was hidden sat
armed — declining via `!activity_bar_visible` — and then fired on the first
idle tick after the bar returned, spending any banked reveal pin on a collapse
the user never saw. It now disarms and clears the pin, as Zen entry does.

The comment claiming "the structural suppressions do not reach here at all" was
false for exactly that reason and is corrected: structural suppressions are
handled where they are ENTERED, by the sites that know the state changed.
…est it

External review of 1b69b5c found `hiding_the_activity_bar_drops_a_pending_collapse_and_its_pin`
could not fail against the hunk it names, masked twice over. First,
`dispatch_menu_action` ends by opening the Customize Layout popup and
`sidebar_auto_hide_allowed()` bails on `context_menu.is_some()`, so the tick
declined before reaching anything under test. Second, the test's own banked pin
absorbed the collapse, leaving `!fired` and `show_tree` both true while the pin
was silently spent — which is exactly the failure the hunk prevents. Deleting
the hunk left the suite green.

Strengthening it exposed a real behaviour question the vacuous version hid:
should a bar toggle spend the user's one-shot reveal exemption? It should not.
A Cmd+B reveal is a separate deliberate act; cancelling the pending collapse is
right, confiscating the exemption because the user also toggled the activity
bar is not — it spends a pin on a collapse that never happened. The toggle now
disarms and leaves the pin alone.

The test asserts the dwell and the pin directly with the popup cleared, so
neither mask can hide a regression. Verified by deleting the disarm: it fails
at tests.rs:31517, its claim assertion.
External review of bb0a622 found a pin banked by Cmd+B surviving the entire
period the activity bar is hidden, then silently exempting the next fresh
deliberate focus move once the bar returns. No collapse can fire while the bar
is hidden, so the pin is unconsumable for that whole span and is still banked
when collapses become possible again.

The decisive evidence was this PR contradicting itself. `toggle_side_bar`
refuses to BANK a pin under a hidden bar, on the stated grounds that "a pin
taken now sits unconsumed and silently eats a later collapse" — and the
activity-bar toggle RETAINED one across exactly that state. Two hunks, one
question, opposite answers; the bank-time answer is the right one.

Resolved at the edge rather than by one rule for both directions: hiding the
bar drops the pin, revealing it leaves any pin alone. A pin banked while the
bar is visible belongs to a reveal that can still be honoured, so the earlier
decision — that a bar toggle during the grace window must not confiscate a
deliberate reveal's exemption — still holds. The two cases needed different
answers, which is why no single-line predicate on `activity_bar_visible` was
the fix.

The test asserted the old behaviour and is updated as a contract change, plus a
new assertion that a fresh focus move after the bar returns now collapses —
the user-visible symptom the stale pin was eating.

Verified by reverting the pin clear: the test fails at tests.rs:31526, its
claim assertion.
External review of ad16434 found a pin banked before Zen surviving it and
silently eating the user's first real collapse after Zen exits.

Zen entry sets BOTH structural conditions — `activity_bar_visible = false` and
`zen_mode = true` — so `toggle_side_bar`'s reason for refusing to bank a pin
there applies in full to a pin already held: no collapse can fire for as long
as Zen lasts, which makes the pin unconsumable rather than merely unused. The
pin was cleared at three sites and Zen was not among them.

This is a regression against main rather than an unhandled edge. On main
`maybe_auto_hide_sidebar` did an unconditional `mem::take` of the pin on every
focus move into the editor or terminal, so any move during or after Zen cleared
it incidentally. Moving consumption to fire time — which is what makes the
transient-suppression retry possible — removed that cleanup without replacing
it at this boundary. The fix created the gap; it was not left behind.

The test asserts both halves: the pin is gone on Zen entry, and the first
deliberate focus move after Zen exits actually collapses. Verified by removing
the clear: it fails at tests.rs:31670, its claim assertion.
`toggle_side_bar` refuses to bank a pin while auto-hide is off, because a
pin set while the feature is off would sit unconsumed and silently eat the
first collapse after the user turns it on. A pin banked BEFORE the user
disables auto-hide reaches that same state by the other route, so the
setting toggle has to drop it too.

Main cleared this incidentally by taking the pin on every focus move.
Consuming at fire time is correct, but it leaves each boundary to say so
for itself — this is the fourth: the bank site, focus_pane(Tree),
ToggleActivityBar, Zen entry, and now the setting toggle.

Test asserts the drop at DISABLE time rather than after a round trip, so
it catches the stranding where it happens rather than at its first
visible consequence.
…pression

The fifth instance of one class, and the one no entry-site disarm can reach.

Cmd+B works inside Zen Mode, so the dwell can be armed while the suppression
is ALREADY in force. No boundary is crossed, so no entry hook fires; the tick
then declines via `!sidebar_auto_hide_allowed()` and stays armed BY DESIGN,
because that decline is correct for transient suppressions (a seam drag, an
open palette) which end in moments and must retry.

Zen is not transient. It can last the session, and the collapse lands on the
frame Zen exits -- for a focus move the user made an hour earlier, silently
spending any pin with it.

Four previous fixes each patched a transition, and each one CONFIRMED the
comment in `tick_sidebar_auto_hide_at` saying structural suppressions "are
handled where they are ENTERED rather than here". That sentence is true of
every case where a transition exists and false of the case where there is
none, which is why patching boundaries never converged.

So refuse to ARM under a suppression nothing will lift on its own, matching
the four conditions `toggle_side_bar` already uses before banking a pin.

Also from review:
- drop a docstring claim about clock-injected tests that stopped being true
  when the timer landed.

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Same repeated cancellation pattern.

Disarming unconditionally (both directions) while only clearing the pin when the bar is hidden is correct: hiding the bar removes the only way back to a collapsed sidebar, so a pin held across that period is unconsumable and a stale armed dwell would otherwise resurrect on the next reveal with no fresh focus move. This is the fourth instance of the "disarm + clear pin" policy; see the consolidated comment for a shared-helper suggestion.

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In `@src/app/mod.rs` around lines 34536 - 34555, Apply the shared
disarm-and-clear-pin helper identified by the existing consolidated policy to
this sidebar visibility transition, replacing the repeated inline cancellation
logic while preserving the behavior of unconditionally disarming and clearing
the pin when the activity bar is hidden.

12817-12848: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Same repeated cancellation pattern.

toggle_sidebar_auto_hide disarms the dwell and clears the pin when the feature turns off. Correct, but it is the same "disarm + clear pin" fragment as toggle_side_bar, the Zen-enter branch, and ToggleActivityBar; see the consolidated comment for a shared-helper suggestion.

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In `@src/app/mod.rs` around lines 12817 - 12848, Extract the repeated sidebar
auto-hide cancellation logic—disarming sidebar_dwell and clearing
sidebar_pinned_open—into a shared helper, then reuse it in
toggle_sidebar_auto_hide, toggle_side_bar, the Zen-enter branch, and
ToggleActivityBar while preserving each caller’s existing behavior.

9344-9357: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Same repeated cancellation pattern as toggle_side_bar.

Disarming sidebar_dwell and clearing sidebar_pinned_open here is correct: Zen structurally suppresses auto-hide for as long as it is on, so a dwell or pin held across it would resurrect a collapse (or eat a real one) with no fresh focus move behind it. This mirrors the same policy duplicated at toggle_side_bar, toggle_sidebar_auto_hide, and ToggleActivityBar; see the consolidated comment.

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In `@src/app/mod.rs` around lines 9344 - 9357, The existing Zen-exit cleanup in
this focus-move path is correct; no code changes are needed. Preserve the calls
to sidebar_dwell.disarm() and clearing sidebar_pinned_open, consistent with the
cancellation policy used by toggle_side_bar, toggle_sidebar_auto_hide, and
ToggleActivityBar.

9284-9296: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Recommended: extract the repeated "cancel pending auto-hide" policy into a helper.

This method now disarms sidebar_dwell and computes sidebar_pinned_open with the added activity_bar_visible && !zen_mode conditions. The logic itself is correct and matches the same conditions maybe_auto_hide_sidebar uses to arm the dwell.

The same "disarm the dwell, drop the reveal pin" policy repeats, each with its own multi-paragraph comment re-explaining the same invariant, in toggle_zen_mode (Zen-enter branch), toggle_sidebar_auto_hide, and the ToggleActivityBar menu handler. See the consolidated comment for the full list and a suggested helper.

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In `@src/app/mod.rs` around lines 9284 - 9296, Extract the repeated pending
auto-hide cancellation policy into a shared helper, including the
`sidebar_dwell.disarm()` call and `sidebar_pinned_open` calculation using
`show_tree`, `sidebar_auto_hide`, `activity_bar_visible`, and `!zen_mode`.
Replace the duplicated logic and explanatory comments in `toggle_zen_mode`,
`toggle_sidebar_auto_hide`, the `ToggleActivityBar` menu handler, and this
method with calls to the helper.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/app/mod.rs`:
- Around line 34536-34555: Apply the shared disarm-and-clear-pin helper
identified by the existing consolidated policy to this sidebar visibility
transition, replacing the repeated inline cancellation logic while preserving
the behavior of unconditionally disarming and clearing the pin when the activity
bar is hidden.
- Around line 12817-12848: Extract the repeated sidebar auto-hide cancellation
logic—disarming sidebar_dwell and clearing sidebar_pinned_open—into a shared
helper, then reuse it in toggle_sidebar_auto_hide, toggle_side_bar, the
Zen-enter branch, and ToggleActivityBar while preserving each caller’s existing
behavior.
- Around line 9344-9357: The existing Zen-exit cleanup in this focus-move path
is correct; no code changes are needed. Preserve the calls to
sidebar_dwell.disarm() and clearing sidebar_pinned_open, consistent with the
cancellation policy used by toggle_side_bar, toggle_sidebar_auto_hide, and
ToggleActivityBar.
- Around line 9284-9296: Extract the repeated pending auto-hide cancellation
policy into a shared helper, including the `sidebar_dwell.disarm()` call and
`sidebar_pinned_open` calculation using `show_tree`, `sidebar_auto_hide`,
`activity_bar_visible`, and `!zen_mode`. Replace the duplicated logic and
explanatory comments in `toggle_zen_mode`, `toggle_sidebar_auto_hide`, the
`ToggleActivityBar` menu handler, and this method with calls to the helper.

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…t at arm

External review caught a regression in the previous commit: refusing to ARM
under a structural suppression stranded the feature.

The refusal is survivable for Zen only because Zen exit restores the pre-Zen
snapshot and closes the sidebar, so the user must re-reveal it and that gesture
re-arms. A hidden activity bar restores nothing. Focus is already on the
editor, production will not call `focus_pane` for a pane that already has
focus, and nothing else arms — so auto-hide stayed dead for the rest of the
session with nothing on screen to explain it. Strictly worse than main, where
arming was unconditional and the tick retried until `allowed()` went true.

The retry loop IS the recovery mechanism. Anything that stops the dwell arming
makes it unreachable, which turned "every exit needs a disarm" into "every exit
needs a re-arm" without a single test failing to say so. The class was not
killed, only moved.

So arming goes back to `sidebar_auto_hide && show_tree && !suspended`, and the
structural/transient split moves to fire time via
`sidebar_structurally_suppressed()`:

  - transient (seam drag, palette, modal): stay armed, retry. It ends in
    moments and the collapse should still land.
  - structural (Zen, hidden activity bar): disarm. It can last the session, so
    retrying would fire on the frame it lifts, for a focus move made an hour
    earlier.

Fire time is the one place that always runs, so it sees the arm-during-
suppression case that no entry hook can: Cmd+B works inside Zen, no transition
occurs, and no hook fires.

The Zen test now asserts the OUTCOME (a tick inside Zen does not collapse, and
cancels rather than defers) instead of the arm-site mechanism it previously
pinned. Its user-visible claim is unchanged; the new
`auto_hide_recovers_after_the_activity_bar_comes_back` covers the property the
old mechanism violated.

Also from review: the tick comment claiming structural cases are handled where
ENTERED now says they are decided here, and why entry hooks cannot see the
no-transition case.
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