From 6d86807e21c9adb29d0fdf148d9ce27c32dd92a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CJ van den Berg <cj@vdbonline.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:12:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: improve type safety of Buffer.Ref values in
 messages

---
 src/buffer/Buffer.zig | 4 ++--
 src/tui/mainview.zig  | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/buffer/Buffer.zig b/src/buffer/Buffer.zig
index d93a187..fa084b4 100644
--- a/src/buffer/Buffer.zig
+++ b/src/buffer/Buffer.zig
@@ -1760,12 +1760,12 @@ pub const Ref = enum(usize) {
 
     pub fn cborEncode(self: @This(), writer: *std.Io.Writer) std.io.Writer.Error!void {
         const value: usize = @intFromEnum(self);
-        try cbor.writeValue(writer, value);
+        try cbor.writeValue(writer, .{ "BREF", value });
     }
 
     pub fn cborExtract(self: *@This(), iter: *[]const u8) cbor.Error!bool {
         var value: usize = 0;
-        if (try cbor.matchValue(iter, cbor.extract(&value))) {
+        if (try cbor.matchValue(iter, .{ "BREF", cbor.extract(&value) })) {
             self.* = @enumFromInt(value);
             return true;
         }
diff --git a/src/tui/mainview.zig b/src/tui/mainview.zig
index fac1e77..1ff50df 100644
--- a/src/tui/mainview.zig
+++ b/src/tui/mainview.zig
@@ -1361,10 +1361,12 @@ const cmds = struct {
             return error.InvalidShellArgument;
         const cmd = ctx.args;
         const handlers = struct {
-            fn out(buffer_ref: usize, parent: tp.pid_ref, _: []const u8, output: []const u8) void {
+            fn out(context: usize, parent: tp.pid_ref, _: []const u8, output: []const u8) void {
+                const buffer_ref: Buffer.Ref = @enumFromInt(context);
                 parent.send(.{ "cmd", "shell_execute_stream_output", .{ buffer_ref, output } }) catch {};
             }
-            fn exit(buffer_ref: usize, parent: tp.pid_ref, arg0: []const u8, err_msg: []const u8, exit_code: i64) void {
+            fn exit(context: usize, parent: tp.pid_ref, arg0: []const u8, err_msg: []const u8, exit_code: i64) void {
+                const buffer_ref: Buffer.Ref = @enumFromInt(context);
                 var buf: [256]u8 = undefined;
                 var stream = std.io.fixedBufferStream(&buf);
                 const writer = stream.writer();