The console

The console is the interactive interface Eva opens when you run eva with no arguments. It is a plugin — eva.tui — like everything else in Eva.

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What it shows

The live area shows a Run as it happens, from the stream rather than from the record. When the Run closes, the fold over the committed records replaces it. What you read afterwards is the record, not the stream.

Notes are lines the console says on its own — command output, a notice, a question Eva asked. A note is not part of the transcript. It lasts until the conversation moves on.

The console holds a Session while it runs. It is not itself a Session.

Typing

Type a prompt and press Enter to send it. Type / to open the command palette; see commands.

Keys and bindings covers how a binding is spelled and how to change one.

Pasting

A pasted block arrives whole, at the caret, on both renderers. A newline inside a paste is text rather than a key, so pasting several lines does not send the prompt.

Two renderers, one frame

Eva draws the same frame two ways. Under Bun it uses a native renderer. Where that renderer cannot load, it draws the same content as a stream of lines. Both say the same words — that is a contract the repository tests on every change, not a coincidence.

You do not choose between them. Eva picks the one the runtime supports.

When output is piped

A run whose output is piped writes the conversation and no chrome. This is what makes eva | tee log.txt produce something worth reading.