Previous follow-up kept the in-progress edit text only as a plain draft, so sending
it after returning posted a NEW message instead of updating the original. Now leaving
a chat mid-edit parks {msgId, text, pre-edit draft} in _pendingEdits; reopening the
chat resumes edit MODE (editTarget + "Editing message" bar + the in-progress text)
once the thread is loaded (cache render, then network render as fallback). So Send
runs saveEdit → UPDATES the original message. If the message can't be found in the
loaded page (or was deleted) it falls back to a plain draft so the text isn't lost.
Verified with puppeteer against the live app:
- edit "hi bob" -> switch to Cara -> back -> edit mode resumes (composer "hi bob
EDITED", bar showing) -> Send -> thread count stays 1, message.edited_at set:
PASS (updated original, no new message).
- plain draft (no edit) switch-and-return still restores: PASS (no regression).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sravan
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