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Problem

Saved notebook error tracebacks still show raw ANSI color codes in the Files preview. IPython includes these codes in its traceback entries, and the preview renders the saved text in a plain preformatted block.

Change

Strip SGR codes from the traceback fallback with the existing shared terminalOutputPlainText helper. Preserve the frame-boundary logic now on main from #36602, including frames that already end with a newline followed by ANSI resets. Stream output and MIME text keep their existing behavior. The shared SGR filter also accepts colon subparameters, so true-color sequences such as 38:2::255:0:0 are removed along with the semicolon form.

Scope

One small, obvious preview bug; no issue is required under CONTRIBUTING. #36602 has already fixed the missing frame boundaries, so this PR now contains only the remaining ANSI removal and one updated assertion in the existing notebook test. Its description explicitly excludes ANSI styling.

Rechecked open and closed PRs/issues using notebook ANSI, notebook color, traceback escape, notebookTraceback, and extendedDocumentPreview terminalOutputPlainText. #21458 handles server-side attachment extraction; this change handles the web/desktop preview. No competing ANSI-preview fix was found.

Verification

Current merge base: 13f89ae0a7fcecbdcd06ac1551d5ff549bb76926.

• With current main's production module and the updated existing test, vp test run apps/web/src/components/files/FilePreviewPanel.test.ts fails exactly one test: the colored traceback retains its ANSI sequences (31 pass).
• With this branch's production module, all 32 tests pass. The existing assertions also cover frames with missing newlines and frames that already have them.
• A runtime comparison of the actual tracebackLines / notebookText functions on current main and this branch confirms the same frame boundaries, with SGR sequences present on main and absent on the branch.
• vp run check:changed origin/main reports PASS for format, lint, both Knip passes, typecheck (35 packages), the focused tests (64 passing), and React Compiler checks.

CodeRabbit follow-up: replacing one existing colored traceback frame with ESC [ 38:2::255:0:0 m made the existing test fail on 7b6f6b5 (1 failure, 31 passing). Extending the shared SGR character class to include : makes it pass. The notebook and terminal-output files together pass all 62 tests, and a runtime comparison preserves red / green as plain text for mixed colon/semicolon input.

The following real-client captures are from the original November 6 verification, before main incorporated #36602. They document the original visible defect and corrected plain traceback; they are historical captures, not new screenshots of this merge.

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After:

The original verification also executed a notebook with a real IPython 9.18.1 kernel and opened it in the Windows Chromium web client. This merge was checked through the parser regression and runtime comparison; no new browser or native desktop session was run.

Original implementation and client captures: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. Current merge resolution and verification: gpt-6.1-sol in the Codex harness through T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at aa62758

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Notebook previews now display traceback entries on separate lines without ANSI color codes. This is a presentation-only correction that preserves existing output selection and preview limits.

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Walkthrough

The SGR pattern now accepts colon characters in its parameters. The traceback test uses a red colon-form ANSI sequence, while its expected normalized output remains unchanged.

Changes: SGR normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle colon-form SGR parameters packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts, apps/web/src/components/files/FilePreviewPanel.test.ts	The SGR pattern accepts colons in parameters. The traceback test uses a red colon-form ANSI sequence and retains the same expected normalized output.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 61eb7

Notebook error previews now strip colon-form terminal color codes as well. The change is small and low risk, and I found no merge-blocking concerns.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title names the main change: notebook error previews in the Files view no longer show terminal color (ANSI SGR) codes. The raw summary and objectives confirm the change strips SGR codes from the t…
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, with concrete content in each. The Problem section states the defect and the Change s…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: notebook error previews in the Files view no longer show terminal color (ANSI SGR) codes. The raw summary and objectives confirm the change strips SGR codes from the traceback fallback via the shared terminalOutputPlainText helper, and the title follows conventional commit form. It is specific and matches the changeset.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, with concrete content in each. The Problem section states the defect and the Change section explains the fix and the colon-subparameter handling. Scope links the related PR #36602 and explains why no issue is required. Verification lists the focused test command, its observed results (31 passing on main, 32 passing on the branch), and the check run. It also states what was not checked, which the template asks for. The before/after images are historical captures from before main incorporated #36602, and the author discloses this. The template's optional model-attribution line is present. Minor gap: the Problem section does not give explicit reproduction steps beyond the notebook preview context, and the template asks for them where relevant. This does not undermine a mostly complete description.

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@coderabbitai The out-of-scope and linked-issue warnings rest on a misreading. #30812 is not linked to this PR. It is a separate open PR of mine (the RTF paragraph fix), and I mention it only in the dedupe notes as another PR that touches extendedDocumentPreview.ts. This PR has a single scope, notebook error tracebacks, so nothing here should be removed or checked against openRtf.

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@geezoria You’re right. I misread #30812. It is a separate open pull request, and this PR mentions it in the deduplication notes. GitHub reports no closing issue references for this PR.

I withdraw the linked-issue and out-of-scope warnings. The notebook change does not need to be removed or checked against openRtf.

The saved checks have not been rerun. Separately, the running-client preview remains unverified, and the required before-and-after screenshots are missing. Please check the preview and add the screenshots before merge.

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@coderabbitai I added the before/after screenshots from a running dev client to the PR description, under Verification → Running client. No code changed: the head is still aa62758.

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@geezoria I confirmed that the PR description includes the before-and-after running-client screenshots, and the current head is aa62758.

The screenshots show the traceback with escape codes before the change and as plain lines afterward. The running-client evidence request is satisfied. I have not rerun the saved checks.

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Evidence

Opened the exact reported notebook through a seeded project and thread → right panel → Files → colon-sgr.ipynb, then maximized the panel. Both runs used fresh databases, Chromium at 1280×800, and light theme. The base visibly retains the colon-form SGR; the head removes it and preserves all five traceback lines.

Before	After
35b88636d4	61eb704522

Reproduction scenario

scenarios:prove exited 0: fails on base, passes on head. Both captures were visually inspected.

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Evidence

Created the reported notebook with real ESC characters on fresh databases, opened a seeded thread → right panel → Files → colon-sgr.ipynb, waited for rendering, and maximized the panel. Chromium, 1280×800, light theme on both commits.

Before	After
fa6ecb125b	6bc26383fa
Plain-text assertion fails: ESC[38:2::255:0:0m remains before Cell In[3].	Same assertion passes; all traceback lines remain.

Scenario source · Before recording · After recording

scenarios:prove exited 0: failsOnBase=true, passesOnHead=true.