Patchbay ASCII Cable

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A patchbay with real, persistent, user-authored topology: drag from one jack to another to create a patch, routed orthogonally onto the shared monospace glyph grid, and once connected a small pulse travels the cable on a loop. Grabbing a jack that already carries a patch unplugs it (the classic pull-the-plug gesture), leaving a loose end you can drop on a new jack or nowhere at all.