fix(timeline): edit one region of a merged pill, not the whole pill

[EtienneLescot]

Summary

Two look-alike regions touching on one clip render as one pill, but every property edit hit the whole pill: changing one changed both, and the pill never split.

• A click on a pill selects the region under the pointer. A property edit reaches that region and its fragments across clip junctions (resolveRegionIds), never a same-clip look-alike: the pill splits, while a region drawn over a cut still edits as one.
• A move keeps the id of the region it was grabbed by, so the selection survives the rebuild. Delete, move and resize still act on the whole pill.
• Known limit: two look-alikes meeting exactly at a clip junction still edit as one, since nothing stored tells them apart from one region's fragments.
• The in-clip repel truncation reported in [Bug]: Two merged identical regions cannot be edited separately — editing the pill changes both #1017 was fixed by fix(timeline): keep a dragged region whole when it repels #1043.

Related issue

Closes #1017

Type of change

• Bug fix

Release impact

• Patch

Desktop impact

• Not platform-specific

Testing

• New unit tests for the rule, the store (the level picker path) and the timeline click, highlight and drag. All fail on main.
• Rebased on fix(timeline): keep a dragged region whole when it repels #1043: both tsc configs, vitest on src/lib/ai-edition, src/components/ai-edition/v4 and electron/ai-edition (1736 passed), Biome, docs check, gen-recreation --check.
• Headless browser shim: picking a level on the merged pill changed both regions on main; with the fix only the clicked one changes and the pill splits, while a cross-junction region still changes both fragments.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Merged timeline pills now select and edit the region under the pointer, rather than defaulting to the first region.
  • Property changes apply to the selected region and its matching fragments without affecting separate, similar-looking regions.
  • Selection styling reflects when any region represented by a merged pill is selected.
  • Moving a merged pill preserves the identity of the region that was grabbed.

• Documentation

  • Updated timeline behavior descriptions and a migration reference.

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• src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts
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• technical-documentation/architecture/timeline-model.md

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Walkthrough

Timeline property edits now apply to the selected region and its clip-junction fragments, rather than every region represented by the same pill. The timeline also selects the region under the pointer and retains its ID when dragging or rebuilding a pill span.

Changes

Region-level timeline editing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve region fragments and preserve member IDs src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts, technical-documentation/architecture/timeline-model.md, technical-documentation/architecture/document-model.md	resolveRegionIds identifies a selected region and its fragments while separating same-clip touching regions. Same-clip overlaps remain together. Rebuilt spans retain the selected member’s ID. Tests and architecture documentation describe these rules.
Apply property edits to selected region fragments src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.test.ts	Zoom, focus, annotation, and speed edits now patch fragments resolved from the selected region ID. Regression coverage checks that touching look-alike regions remain unchanged.
Select the region under the pointer src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx	Pointer selection and dragging retain the underlying region ID. Selection styling checks every source ID in the pill. Geometry tests cover pointer selection, dragging, and merged-pill selection.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: beetix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 11991

A property edit on a narrowly overlapping pair may leave the regions with different properties. This is a bounded edge case, and the documentation references should also be corrected; the PR is mergeable with those follow-ups understood.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: property edits target one region within a merged pill instead of the entire pill.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the change, linked issue, change type, release impact, platform impact, and testing. It also states a known limitation. The screenshot section is not filled in, but the testing …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	[#1017] The timeline resolves the clicked pill member to that region and its clip-junction fragments. Store property updates use those IDs, so a same-clip touching look-alike remains unchanged and the…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes support [#1017]. Timeline and store tests cover the fix. Timeline-model documentation describes the region-level edit rule, and the document-model reference update tracks the shifted timel…

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Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts:
- Line 349: Update the same-clip grouping condition in the timeline grouping
logic to split only when startSec is at or after runEndSec. Remove the epsilon
adjustment so overlapping regions remain in one edit group.

Review comments at @technical-documentation/architecture/timeline-model.md:
- Around line 302-304: Update the façade table’s Timeline UI and Store /
authoring rows so their source references point to the current implementations:
locate pill construction in V4Timeline.tsx and region mutations in useTimeline,
including anchorRegionsWithDerivedMs, replacePillSpan, dropPillsByIds, and
patchRegionById. Keep the documented operations unchanged.

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• src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx
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• src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.test.ts
• src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts
• src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts
• src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts
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• technical-documentation/architecture/timeline-model.md

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