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Follows #7. Three changes, one of which turned out to be a real bug rather than a cosmetic one.

Renaming a notebook was losing its session and its variables

A notebook's URI is both its session key and its namespace key. So renaming the file did two things nobody wanted: the old session stayed in the map — logged in, spending one of ten, owned by a URI nothing would ever ask for again — and the notebook started over with an empty namespace, which reads as my variables disappeared.

renameOwner moves the scope entry inside the session, re-keys the map, and re-publishes the cache name (a stale one points an administrator at a file that is not there). Wired to onDidRenameFiles, which is explicit renames only — saving under a new name makes a second document and correctly gets a session of its own.

The names

Owner Was Now
Notebook gemdb nb analysis GemDB nb analysis
Shell gemdb sh 41234 GemDB Shell 41234
Extension's own gemdb ext GemDB Code
Script run gemdb run backfill GemDB run backfill

Shell spelled out, nb not, and the asymmetry is deliberate: a shell's suffix is a fixed-width pid, so the longer tag costs nothing, while a notebook's suffix is a filename and every character the tag takes is one the title loses — 22 against 16 if it were GemDB notebook . Ordinary notebook names exceed 16.

On capitalisation

CLAUDE.md already answers most of it: write "GemDB Shell" wherever a user can see it, and an administrator reading a session list is a user. So product names are capitalised as the product is written and common nouns (nb, run) are not — which is just English, and happens to make the rows self-describing.

It also fits the column. GemStone's own names there are PascalCase: GcReclaim, SymbolGem, ShrPcMonitor, TopazL, and — newly measured for this PR — TopazR, the default for an unnamed RPC gem, which is precisely what a GemDB session would otherwise show as. The one lowercase entry is the stone's own slot, and that carries the stone's configured name rather than a product's, so it isn't a counter-example. An all-lowercase gemdb nb … would have been the only thing of its kind in the list.

The notebook's own title is left exactly as the user wrote it — the tag is ours to style, the filename is theirs, and re-casing it would make the label harder to match against the file in the explorer.

Verification

  • 109 unit tests, including that a notebook's capitalisation survives untouched.
  • 46 integration tests. The new one renames a notebook that has a session and a variable, then checks all four things that could go wrong: the session count did not grow, the sessionId is the same one, the variable survived the move, and the shared cache reports the new name.
  • Lint, format, both typechecks clean.

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Three changes on top of the naming work.

Renaming a notebook turns out to be more than a stale label. A notebook's
URI is both its session key and its namespace key, so a rename stranded
the old session -- logged in, spending one of ten, owned by a URI nothing
would ask for again -- and handed the notebook an empty namespace, which
reads as "my variables disappeared". renameOwner moves the scope entry
inside the session, re-keys the map, and re-publishes the cache name;
wired to onDidRenameFiles, which is explicit renames only.

The extension's own session is now GemDB Code, after the extension, and
the shell is GemDB Shell <pid> rather than an abbreviation -- a shell's
suffix is a fixed-width pid, so spelling out the tag costs nothing. nb
stays short deliberately: a notebook's suffix is a filename, and every
character the tag takes is one the title loses (22 against 16).

Capitalisation follows the product: CLAUDE.md already says to write
"GemDB Shell" wherever a user can see it, and an administrator reading a
session list is a user. Common nouns (nb, run) stay lowercase. It also
sits better beside GemStone's own PascalCase names in that column --
GcReclaim, SymbolGem, ShrPcMonitor, TopazR (measured: an unnamed RPC gem
is TopazR, as a linked one is TopazL). The single lowercase entry there
is the stone's slot, which carries the stone's configured name rather
than a product's.

109 unit tests, 46 integration. The new integration test renames a
notebook that has a session and a variable, then checks the session count
did not grow, the sessionId is the same one, the variable survived, and
the shared cache now reports the new name.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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