The engine already anticipated $A1/A$1/$A$1 in its grammar comment, but the
lexer had no rule for '$' at all -- any formula using it failed to parse.
- lexer.ts: '$' is now a valid word character, so "$A$1" tokenizes as one
IDENT, same as any other bare word (the lexer still doesn't interpret it,
per its "dumb lexer" design -- the parser/evaluator stay untouched, since
evaluation is purely positional and $ has no effect on a value).
- refs.ts: parseA1()/toA1() now carry colAbs/rowAbs through the $ markers
(backward compatible -- existing {col,row} destructuring is unaffected).
Added cycleReferenceLock() for Excel/Numbers-style F4: relative ->
absolute -> row-locked -> col-locked -> relative, toggling whichever
reference sits at the caret (and the correct side of an A1:B2 range).
- document.ts: shiftFormula() now honors the lock on copy (a locked axis
stays exactly as typed) but not on cut (a moved cell's reference follows
it regardless of $, since cut relocates the cell itself rather than
filling a relative offset).
- TableGrid.vue's inline cell editor and FormulaBar.vue both wire up F4 via
the shared cycleReferenceLock() helper.
- Tests: lexer/parser coverage for $ tokenizing/parsing, a new refs.spec.ts
for parseA1/toA1 round-tripping and the F4 cycle (incl. range side-
picking), and document.spec.ts cases for locked-axis copy vs. cut.
- README.md / src/engine/README.md: documented the $ semantics, F4, and
corrected a couple of now-stale claims (test count, "$ is ignored, there's
no copy/fill", "active cell is always the last-clicked one").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
wkhandClaude Sonnet 5