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title: history view strips completion metadata with string replacement
status: open
labels: [bug]
created: 2026-09-18
closed:
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Rendering `done.txt` strips the `x <date>` prefix from the parsed description with:

    strings.Replace(desc, "x "+parts[1], "", 1)

It assumes `parts[1]` is a 10-character date. That happens to work for lines dew writes itself, but any task whose description contains the literal `x <date>` gets silently mangled, and the completed date is re-derived from raw fields on every frame (once in the measuring loop and again in the render loop).

Fix: parse the `x <date>` prefix once in `ParseTask` (e.g. an `IsDone` + `DoneDate` field) and render from that.