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Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the last closed app tab, even after switching threads or opening Settings. It covers file, diff, pull request, browser, device, and agent tabs, including tabs on the Pull Requests page. Implements discussion #12637.

A shared history keeps the last 20 closed tabs and returns to the owning thread or page. Reopening skips tabs already open and keeps failed restores available to retry. The view.reopenClosed command is editable in Settings → Key Bindings and works while a terminal or desktop browser has focus. Hiding a panel or terminal drawer and closing a terminal do not add to tab history.

Browser tabs reopen their saved page, profile, and viewport in a new session; page history is not restored. This shortcut does not undo deleted work. Browsers may reserve Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T, so choose another binding if the browser takes it first.

Verified with 352 focused web, desktop preview, and server tests, scoped web/contracts/server typechecks, and changed-file lint and format checks.

Thread after closing the file tab

File tab restored with Cmd Shift T

Implemented with GPT-6-Astra and Sol in the native Codex harness; reviewed with Astra, Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial cross-app capability with persistent tab history, new restore workflows, routing, browser-session recreation, and desktop shortcut forwarding. It also adds a new default keybinding, so the breadth of runtime behavior and changed product defaults warrant human review.

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The application now records closed panels, tabs, browsers, terminals, and drawers in shared persisted history. The reopen command restores eligible entries across the application. Shared keybinding matching and desktop preview IPC support configured shortcuts.

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Reopen Closed Views

Layer / File(s) Summary
Closed-view storage and recording
apps/web/src/closedViewStore.ts, apps/web/src/rightPanelStore.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/closePreviewSession.ts
Records eligible closed views in bounded newest-first history. Panel, terminal, drawer, and browser closure paths add entries and avoid duplicate records.
View restoration and routing
apps/web/src/reopenClosedView.ts, apps/web/src/components/ReopenClosedViewShortcut.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx, apps/web/*test*
Restores panels, browsers, terminals, drawers, drafts, and pull-request selections. The coordinator skips unavailable entries, serializes restores, navigates after success, and retains failed entries.
Keybinding and desktop preview integration
packages/shared/src/keybindings.ts, packages/contracts/src/keybindings.ts, apps/web/src/keybindings.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/ipc/*, packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts, docs/user/keybindings.md
Adds shared shortcut matching, registers the reopen command, exposes effective shortcuts, and sends configured preview shortcuts through desktop IPC and menu actions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ReopenClosedViewShortcut
  participant reopenClosedView
  participant useClosedViewStore
  participant DesktopPreviewBridge
  User->>ReopenClosedViewShortcut: Press reopen-closed shortcut
  ReopenClosedViewShortcut->>useClosedViewStore: Read next closed entry
  ReopenClosedViewShortcut->>reopenClosedView: Restore selected view
  reopenClosedView-->>ReopenClosedViewShortcut: Return restoration result
  ReopenClosedViewShortcut->>DesktopPreviewBridge: Sync effective preview shortcuts
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Unavailable workspace tabs stay closed rather than reopening blank, and cross-thread restores use the owning workspace. The change is mergeable after normal checks.

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🟡 Minor · Prune unavailable workspace entries from close history. · rightPanelStore.ts:860-861

apps/web/src/rightPanelStore.ts:860-861
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Prune unavailable workspace entries from close history.

When the project becomes unavailable, this early return preserves closedSurfaces if no workspace surface is currently open. reopenClosed can then restore a files or non-attachment file surface. ChatView cannot render that surface without an active project, so the shortcut opens a blank panel tab.

Filter those entries from closedSurfaces during reconciliation and include history changes in this early-return check.

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In `@apps/web/src/rightPanelStore.ts` around lines 860 - 861, Update the surface
reconciliation logic around activeStillExists to remove unavailable workspace
entries from closedSurfaces, including files and non-attachment file surfaces
when no active project exists. Include closedSurfaces changes in the
early-return condition so history is updated even when the open surface count is
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In `@apps/web/src/rightPanelStore.ts`:
- Around line 860-861: Update the surface reconciliation logic around
activeStillExists to remove unavailable workspace entries from closedSurfaces,
including files and non-attachment file surfaces when no active project exists.
Include closedSurfaces changes in the early-return condition so history is
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apps/web/src/reopenClosedView.test.ts (1)

37-45: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reset closed-view entries between tests.

reopenClosedView includes saved terminal IDs from useClosedViewStore.entries when it allocates new IDs. Reset entries so a closed terminal view from one test cannot affect later assertions.

The current first test records only a diff entry, so it does not change terminal allocation. closeRevisionByThreadKey is not read by reopenClosedView; resetting it is not required for this issue.

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-import type { ClosedView } from "./closedViewStore";
+import { useClosedViewStore, type ClosedView } from "./closedViewStore";
...
 beforeEach(() => {
   __setClientSettingsForTests(DEFAULT_CLIENT_SETTINGS);
   resetPreviewStateForTests();
+  useClosedViewStore.setState({ entries: [] });
   useRightPanelStore.setState({ byThreadKey: {}, userActionRevisionByThreadKey: {} });
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In `@apps/web/src/reopenClosedView.test.ts` around lines 37 - 45, Update the
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In `@apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts`:
- Around line 2017-2025: Update the input adapter calling
matchesKeybindingShortcut to preserve AltGraph exclusion by providing
getModifierState("AltGraph") from the original input event, or otherwise reject
ambiguous ctrl+alt combinations before matching. Keep normal shortcut matching
and the existing handler behavior unchanged.

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In `@apps/web/src/reopenClosedView.test.ts`:
- Around line 37-45: Update the beforeEach setup in reopenClosedView tests to
reset useClosedViewStore entries to an empty list, importing the store alongside
the existing ClosedView type. Leave closeRevisionByThreadKey and the other state
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Thanks for this. We want the shortcut, and the core (recording closed tabs, returning to the owning thread, and handling the shortcut while the desktop browser has focus) looks solid. The PR is bigger than the feature needs, though. Please narrow it before we merge:

  1. Drop terminal restore. About half of reopenClosedView.ts reserves ids, rolls back failures, rebuilds split layouts and reconciles drawer ids, all to open a fresh, empty shell. That's "new terminal," not "reopen what I closed." Please remove the terminal kind and terminal panel-tab restore, along with the close-recording in ChatView.
  2. Drop panel and terminal-drawer history. Hiding the panel or drawer isn't closing a tab. Right now, close a file and then hide the panel, and the first press just unhides the panel. The shortcut should only reopen closed tabs, like it does in browsers. That also means close / toggleVisibility / toggle should stop counting as close actions.
  3. Rename the command. rightPanel.reopenClosed also switches threads and routes, and it becomes a contract once users bind it in their keybindings file. Something like view.reopenClosed would fit better.
  4. Generalize the desktop IPC or explain why not. Forwarding the shortcut from a focused browser is needed, but setReopenClosedShortcuts only works for this one command. Could it take a list of commands to forward, so the next shortcut that needs this can reuse it?

Two smaller points, not blockers:

  • The Pull Requests page restore (about 40 lines of search-param rebuilding) is a second navigation path. Consider dropping it if it isn't cheap to keep.
  • ReopenClosedViewShortcut adds its own capture-phase keydown listener next to the existing command dispatch. If that's there only so the shortcut works from Settings, please say so in a comment. Otherwise, route it through the existing dispatch.

I checked the bulk-close point from Macroscope. finishRightPanelSurfaceClose closes tabs one at a time, so history is kept, and that's fine as is. Focused web tests (221) and Manager.test.ts (100) pass at 66155d6.

The reopen shortcut listens in the capture phase, so while closed-view
history existed it swallowed mod+shift+t before the Settings recorder
saw it, and focusing the recorder to rebind the chord reopened a view
instead. Skip keybinding-capture targets, as the sidebar toggle does.

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Re-audited the whole PR against main at 17817b6. It merges cleanly with current main (e67abcf), and the focused web, desktop and server tests plus scoped typechecks pass on the merged tree.

The four blockers from the earlier review still apply at this head:

  1. Terminal restore. Restoring a terminal entry or a terminal panel-tab opens a fresh shell. That is "new terminal", not reopen, and it accounts for most of reopenClosedView.ts (lines 56-156). Drop it along with the close-recording in ChatView. Also have the rightPanelStore subscriber skip terminal surfaces, as it already skips live browser tabs. Otherwise they stay in history as entries that can never restore.
  2. panel / terminal-drawer history. Reproduced at the store level: open a diff and a file, close the file tab, then hide the panel. History becomes [panel, panel-tab], so the first press only unhides the panel. close, toggleVisibility and toggle should stay userAction, not closeAction.
  3. Command name. Rename rightPanel.reopenClosed (e.g. view.reopenClosed) before users start writing it into their keybindings files.
  4. Desktop IPC. Generalize setReopenClosedShortcuts into a list of commands to forward, or explain why it can't be.

I pushed one small fix on top (17817b6). The capture-phase listener swallowed the chord in Settings → Key Bindings whenever history was non-empty. Focusing the recorder and pressing mod+shift+t reopened a view instead of recording the shortcut, which blocks the rebind the new docs tell browser users to do. The listener now ignores [data-keybinding-capture] targets, as the sidebar toggle already does, and a regression test covers it.

Not blocking:

  • When a restore returns false (a terminal or preview RPC failure, or a file tab with no available project), ReopenClosedViewShortcut.tsx:126 returns without any feedback, and the entry stays at the front of history. A toast there would keep the shortcut from looking broken. Point 1 removes most of these cases.
  • Existing bot findings: Macroscope's bulk-close and Pull Requests page findings are handled by the store subscriber and the root-level listener. CodeRabbit's AltGraph and test-reset findings are fixed in c4c7eb1 and 66155d6.

Audited with Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code).

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@juliusmarminge Your four blockers are addressed at 361408b: terminal and visibility history are removed, the command is now view.reopenClosed, and desktop browser shortcuts use command/shortcut forwarding. The latest CI checks pass, and there are no open review threads. Could you re-review this head?

Move the choice of which closed-tab entry to restore, drop or wait on, and
the Pull Requests page search update, out of ReopenClosedViewShortcut into
planNextReopen and pullRequestsSearchForRestore. Table tests cover them
directly, so the component test no longer mocks thread, draft and catalog
state per case and keeps only the behavior the component owns.

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Thanks for working on this. We merged the orchestrator V2 rewrite in #2829, and we are closing this PR as part of that transition.

The patch conflicts with the rewrite in apps/web/src/rightPanelStore.ts, packages/contracts/src/keybindings.ts. Even where the conflict is small enough to rebase, we are asking for fresh PRs against the new base so we can review and verify the behavior in V2.

Sorry for the extra work this creates. If the change is still needed on V2, please rebuild it on current main, verify it there, and open a new PR linking back here. We're closing the current implementation without assuming the underlying request is resolved.

devuterian added a commit to devuterian/t3code-korean that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
Re-implements upstream pingdotgg#13063: view.reopenClosed (mod+shift+t) restores the
most recently closed panel tab or browser session, newest first. Closed tabs
are recorded from right panel closes and preview session closes into a
persisted history store; the desktop preview forwards the chord to the app.
Shortcut matching moves to @t3tools/shared so desktop can reuse it.

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