pi-editor

Two input-editor features in one package: a rounded editor box and a draft stash. They share pi's input-editor extension surface (the editor component, plus getEditorText/setEditorText and shortcuts), so they ship together.

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Rounded editor box

Draws a rounded border around the input editor. The default box is square; this one is rounder. The session name can be shown as a right-aligned label on the top or bottom border, toggled per command:

| Command | Effect | |---------|--------| | /editor | Box + label status | | /editor on / /editor off | Toggle the rounded box | | /editor name on / /editor name off | Toggle the session name label | | /editor name top / /editor name bottom | Label position |

The box is on as soon as the package is installed; /editor off turns it off and the choice sticks. If you had previously turned the old pi-statusline box off, that preference lived in statusline.json and does not carry over: turn it off once here.

Settings persist to ~/.pi/agent/editor.json (enabled, sessionName, sessionNamePosition).

Draft stash

alt+s parks a half-written prompt so you can go do something else; alt+s again brings it back. Same idea as Claude Code's draft stash.

| Action | Effect | |--------|--------| | alt+s with text in the editor | Stash it (per project) and clear the editor | | alt+s with an empty editor | Restore the stash into the editor (one-shot, the stash is then cleared) | | /stash | Show stash status for this project | | /stash clear | Clear this project's stash |

The stash is keyed by the session's working directory: stashing in one project never touches another project's stash. Stored in ~/.pi/agent/stash.json (one file, one entry per project path). It lives outside the session, so it restores in any session, even new ones, and never enters the conversation: the LLM does not see it, and the session file is not touched.

Commands

| Command | Effect | |---------|--------| | /editor | Show box/label status | | /editor on / /editor off | Toggle the rounded box | | /editor name on / /editor name off | Toggle the session name label on the box | | /editor name top / /editor name bottom | Label position | | /stash | Stash status for this project | | /stash clear | Clear this project's stash |

Install

pi install npm:@smarzban/pi-editor

Shortcut note

On macOS, your terminal must send Option as Meta/Esc+ for alt+s to work (the default in iTerm2 profiles set to "Esc+", Ghostty via macos-option-as-alt, and kitty via macos_option_as_alt), otherwise Option+S types ß instead.

Development

# install locally
pi install /absolute/path/to/pi-extensions/packages/pi-editor

One extension, no build step: index.ts registers the custom editor component, the alt+s shortcut, and the /editor + /stash commands.