diff --git a/src/editor.ts b/src/editor.ts
index 5c9b840..9e2f43d 100644
--- a/src/editor.ts
+++ b/src/editor.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,207 @@
 import * as monaco from 'monaco-editor'
-import { emmetCSS, emmetHTML } from 'emmet-monaco-es'
+import { emmetCSS, expandAbbreviation } from 'emmet-monaco-es'
 import editorWorker from 'monaco-editor/esm/vs/editor/editor.worker?worker'
 import cssWorker from 'monaco-editor/esm/vs/language/css/css.worker?worker'
 import htmlWorker from 'monaco-editor/esm/vs/language/html/html.worker?worker'
 
-emmetHTML(monaco, ['html'])
+/**
+ * Emmet, wired by hand — see the note on the provider below.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Characters Emmet accepts in an abbreviation. `<` is excluded: it opens a tag
+ * or a placeholder, never an abbreviation. `>` is included — it is Emmet's
+ * child combinator (`ul>li*3`).
+ */
+const ABBREVIATION_CHAR = /[\w!@#$%^&*()[\]{}:;'"~=+./>\\-]/
+
+const CLOSERS: Record<string, string> = { '{': '}', '(': ')', '[': ']' }
+
+/** Matches a `<style>`/`</style>` open or close tag, for depth counting. */
+const STYLE_TAG = /<\/?style\b[^>]*>/gi
+
+/** Same trigger set the library used, so the widget appears at the same moments. */
+const TRIGGER_CHARACTERS = [
+    '!',
+    '.',
+    '}',
+    ':',
+    '*',
+    '$',
+    ']',
+    '/',
+    '>',
+    '0',
+    '1',
+    '2',
+    '3',
+    '4',
+    '5',
+    '6',
+    '7',
+    '8',
+    '9'
+]
+
+/**
+ * Whether the cursor sits inside a tag, an attribute, or a placeholder.
+ *
+ * Read off the line rather than the tokenizer — that decision is the one the
+ * library got wrong. Scanned only as far as the cursor, so a last `<` beating
+ * the last `>` means "inside": an unfinished tag, or a `<?= html ?>`.
+ */
+function insideTag(line: string, column: number): boolean {
+    const before = line.slice(0, column - 1)
+    return before.lastIndexOf('<') > before.lastIndexOf('>')
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether the cursor is inside a `<style>` element, where the text is Less and
+ * an HTML abbreviation would only produce noise — `margin` would become
+ * `<margin></margin>`, and `10px;` makes Emmet throw.
+ */
+function insideStyleElement(model: monaco.editor.ITextModel, position: monaco.Position): boolean {
+    const before = model.getValueInRange({
+        startLineNumber: 1,
+        startColumn: 1,
+        endLineNumber: position.lineNumber,
+        endColumn: position.column
+    })
+    let depth = 0
+    for (const match of before.matchAll(STYLE_TAG)) {
+        depth += match[0][1] === '/' ? -1 : 1
+    }
+    return depth > 0
+}
+
+/**
+ * The abbreviation ending at the cursor, and the column it starts in.
+ *
+ * `column` is 1-based, as Monaco counts: the characters before the cursor are
+ * `line[0 .. column - 2]`, hence the scan starting a character back from it.
+ * Bracketed runs are kept whole so `p{hello world}` and `a[href="x"]` survive,
+ * the way the library's own scanner handled them.
+ */
+function extractAbbreviation(
+    line: string,
+    column: number
+): { text: string; startColumn: number } | null {
+    if (insideTag(line, column)) {
+        return null
+    }
+
+    const closers: string[] = []
+    let index = column - 2
+
+    while (index >= 0) {
+        const character = line[index]
+
+        if (character === ' ' || character === '\t') {
+            // Legal inside `{…}`, a separator anywhere else.
+            if (closers.length === 0) {
+                break
+            }
+        } else if (character === '}' || character === ')' || character === ']') {
+            closers.push(character)
+        } else if (character === '{' || character === '(' || character === '[') {
+            if (closers.length === 0) {
+                break
+            }
+            if (closers[closers.length - 1] === CLOSERS[character]) {
+                closers.pop()
+            }
+        } else if (closers.length === 0 && !ABBREVIATION_CHAR.test(character)) {
+            break
+        }
+
+        index--
+    }
+
+    // A stray `}` with no opener behind it lets the scan walk back over the
+    // indentation, so leading whitespace is dropped rather than matched.
+    let start = index + 1
+    while (start < column - 1 && (line[start] === ' ' || line[start] === '\t')) {
+        start++
+    }
+
+    // The cursor may sit in text while the scan has walked back into a tag —
+    // `class="parent">` is reachable from the end of `<div class="parent">`.
+    // The candidate has to be outside a tag at *both* ends.
+    if (insideTag(line, start + 1)) {
+        return null
+    }
+
+    const text = line.slice(start, column - 1)
+    return text.length > 0 ? { text, startColumn: start + 1 } : null
+}
+
+/**
+ * Emmet, wired by hand.
+ *
+ * `emmetHTML` decides where Emmet may expand by asking the tokenizer for the
+ * state of the line *before* the cursor — `getBeginState(lineNumber - 1)`
+ * against a 1-based API. That is wrong twice over. It returns `null` on line 1
+ * and the library clones the result unconditionally, so the first expansion
+ * throws `Cannot read properties of null (reading 'clone')`; and below a
+ * `<style>` block it hands the HTML tokenizer the CSS state from inside the
+ * block, so nothing expands anywhere after it — which is why the global slide
+ * went dead while ordinary slides worked. Its `tokenizer: 'standard'` escape
+ * hatch is no help on this Monaco: it calls `model.tokenization.getLineTokens`,
+ * minified to `.n` in 0.55, so the library's feature-detect fails and quietly
+ * falls back to the same broken path.
+ *
+ * Expansion itself is sound and exported, so only the location check moves here:
+ * read the abbreviation back off the line, refuse inside a tag, expand. The
+ * result is inserted as plain text — `expandAbbreviation` normalises its own
+ * `${…}` tabstops away, so snippet mode would buy nothing and would mangle
+ * author text containing `$1`.
+ */
+monaco.languages.registerCompletionItemProvider('html', {
+    triggerCharacters: TRIGGER_CHARACTERS,
+    provideCompletionItems(model, position) {
+        if (insideStyleElement(model, position)) {
+            return undefined
+        }
+
+        const found = extractAbbreviation(
+            model.getLineContent(position.lineNumber),
+            position.column
+        )
+        if (!found) {
+            return undefined
+        }
+
+        let expanded: string
+        try {
+            expanded = expandAbbreviation(found.text, { type: 'markup', syntax: 'html' })
+        } catch {
+            // A bad abbreviation must never take completion — or the editor —
+            // down with it.
+            return undefined
+        }
+        // Expanding to the abbreviation itself, or to nothing, is just noise.
+        if (!expanded || expanded === found.text) {
+            return undefined
+        }
+
+        return {
+            suggestions: [
+                {
+                    label: found.text,
+                    kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Snippet,
+                    insertText: expanded,
+                    range: new monaco.Range(
+                        position.lineNumber,
+                        found.startColumn,
+                        position.lineNumber,
+                        position.column
+                    )
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    }
+})
+
 emmetCSS(monaco, ['css', 'scss', 'less'])
 
 self.MonacoEnvironment = {
@@ -26,7 +223,7 @@ const MONACO_PARENT = '.code'
  * the Less lives inside that tag, so there is nothing to switch between. The
  * CSS/LESS workers above still highlight, validate and complete that Less.
  */
-export function createEditor(): monaco.editor.IStandaloneCodeEditor {
+function createEditor(): monaco.editor.IStandaloneCodeEditor {
     return monaco.editor.create(document.querySelector(MONACO_PARENT)!, {
         value: '',
         language: 'html',
@@ -34,3 +231,5 @@ export function createEditor(): monaco.editor.IStandaloneCodeEditor {
         automaticLayout: true
     })
 }
+
+export const editor = createEditor()
diff --git a/src/html-worker.ts b/src/html-worker.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85fd4ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/html-worker.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,301 @@
+import { initialize } from 'monaco-editor/esm/vs/common/initialize.js'
+import {
+    getLanguageService,
+    newHTMLDataProvider
+} from 'monaco-editor/esm/external/vscode-html-languageservice/lib/esm/htmlLanguageService.js'
+import { getLESSLanguageService } from 'monaco-editor/esm/external/vscode-css-languageservice/lib/esm/cssLanguageService.js'
+import { TextDocument } from 'monaco-editor/esm/external/vscode-languageserver-textdocument/lib/esm/main.js'
+
+/**
+ * The HTML worker, with Less wired into `<style>`.
+ *
+ * Monaco's own HTML worker never gives you Less completions. Upstream's
+ * `embeddedSupport` — the `getDefaultEmbeddedSupport` that VS Code's
+ * `vscode-html-language-features` extension uses — is absent from the copy
+ * monaco vendors, and so is the `document.stylesheets` model it walks; the
+ * `setCompletionParticipants` hook survives but nothing behind it does. So this
+ * does the dispatch itself: a position inside a `<style>` element goes to the
+ * Less language service, everything else to HTML as before.
+ *
+ * Always Less, never CSS, whatever the tag says. That matches the app: every
+ * `<style>` block is compiled by the Less compiler regardless of its attributes
+ * (`extractStyles` only ever hands the tag's text to Less), so a `lang="css"`
+ * hint would only be a lie.
+ *
+ * The virtual document holds just the stylesheet's text, and every coordinate
+ * crosses between the two documents through `offsetAt`/`positionAt` rather than
+ * hand-rolled line arithmetic — a `<style>` that opens mid-line is the case that
+ * breaks naive line maths.
+ */
+
+interface Position {
+    line: number
+    character: number
+}
+
+interface Range {
+    start: Position
+    end: Position
+}
+
+/** The text between a `<style>` element's tags, as offsets into the document. */
+interface StyleBlock {
+    start: number
+    end: number
+}
+
+const STYLE_OPEN = /<style\b[^>]*>/gi
+const STYLE_CLOSE = /<\/style\s*>/gi
+
+/** Every `<style>` element's content range, in the order they appear. */
+function findStyleBlocks(text: string): StyleBlock[] {
+    const blocks: StyleBlock[] = []
+    STYLE_OPEN.lastIndex = 0
+    for (let open = STYLE_OPEN.exec(text); open; open = STYLE_OPEN.exec(text)) {
+        const contentStart = open.index + open[0].length
+        STYLE_CLOSE.lastIndex = contentStart
+        const close = STYLE_CLOSE.exec(text)
+        if (!close) {
+            break
+        }
+        blocks.push({ start: contentStart, end: close.index })
+        // Continue past the close tag so a following block is still found.
+        STYLE_OPEN.lastIndex = close.index + close[0].length
+    }
+    return blocks
+}
+
+/** The stylesheet the position is in, or null when it is in ordinary markup. */
+function styleBlockAt(blocks: StyleBlock[], offset: number): StyleBlock | null {
+    for (const block of blocks) {
+        if (offset >= block.start && offset <= block.end) {
+            return block
+        }
+    }
+    return null
+}
+
+/**
+ * A range from the stylesheet, in the HTML document's coordinates.
+ *
+ * Both documents do their own arithmetic: `lessDocument.offsetAt` gives the
+ * offset within the stylesheet text, `document.positionAt` turns the shifted
+ * offset back into a line/character in the HTML buffer.
+ */
+function toDocumentRange(document, lessDocument, block: StyleBlock, range: Range): Range {
+    return {
+        start: document.positionAt(block.start + lessDocument.offsetAt(range.start)),
+        end: document.positionAt(block.start + lessDocument.offsetAt(range.end))
+    }
+}
+
+class PsSlidesHtmlWorker {
+    private readonly ctx
+    private readonly languageSettings
+    private readonly languageId
+    private readonly htmlLanguageService
+    private readonly lessLanguageService
+
+    constructor(ctx, createData) {
+        this.ctx = ctx
+        this.languageSettings = createData.languageSettings
+        this.languageId = createData.languageId
+        const data = this.languageSettings.data
+        const customDataProviders = []
+        if (data?.dataProviders) {
+            for (const id in data.dataProviders) {
+                customDataProviders.push(newHTMLDataProvider(id, data.dataProviders[id]))
+            }
+        }
+        this.htmlLanguageService = getLanguageService({
+            useDefaultDataProvider: data?.useDefaultDataProvider,
+            customDataProviders
+        })
+        this.lessLanguageService = getLESSLanguageService()
+    }
+
+    async doComplete(uri, position) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return null
+        }
+        const block = styleBlockAt(findStyleBlocks(document.getText()), document.offsetAt(position))
+        if (block) {
+            return this.lessComplete(document, position, block)
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.doComplete(
+                document,
+                position,
+                this.htmlLanguageService.parseHTMLDocument(document),
+                this.languageSettings?.suggest
+            )
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Completions from the Less service, with every edit translated back into
+     * the HTML document's coordinates.
+     */
+    lessComplete(document, position, block) {
+        const lessDocument = this.lessDocument(document, block)
+        const result = this.lessLanguageService.doComplete(
+            lessDocument,
+            lessDocument.positionAt(document.offsetAt(position) - block.start),
+            null,
+            this.languageSettings?.suggest
+        )
+        if (!result) {
+            return null
+        }
+        return {
+            isIncomplete: result.isIncomplete,
+            items: result.items.map((item) => ({
+                ...item,
+                textEdit: item.textEdit
+                    ? {
+                          range: toDocumentRange(document, lessDocument, block, item.textEdit.range),
+                          newText: item.textEdit.newText
+                      }
+                    : undefined
+            }))
+        }
+    }
+
+    async doHover(uri, position) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return null
+        }
+        const block = styleBlockAt(findStyleBlocks(document.getText()), document.offsetAt(position))
+        if (block) {
+            const lessDocument = this.lessDocument(document, block)
+            const hover = this.lessLanguageService.doHover(
+                lessDocument,
+                lessDocument.positionAt(document.offsetAt(position) - block.start),
+                null,
+                this.languageSettings?.suggest
+            )
+            if (hover) {
+                return { ...hover, range: toDocumentRange(document, lessDocument, block, hover.range) }
+            }
+            return null
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.doHover(
+                document,
+                position,
+                this.htmlLanguageService.parseHTMLDocument(document)
+            )
+        )
+    }
+
+    /** The stylesheet's own text, as a document the Less service can read. */
+    private lessDocument(document, block: StyleBlock) {
+        return TextDocument.create(
+            document.uri,
+            'less',
+            document.version,
+            document.getText().slice(block.start, block.end)
+        )
+    }
+
+    async format(uri, range, options) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return []
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.format(document, range, {
+                ...this.languageSettings.format,
+                ...options
+            })
+        )
+    }
+
+    async findDocumentHighlights(uri, position) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return []
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.findDocumentHighlights(
+                document,
+                position,
+                this.htmlLanguageService.parseHTMLDocument(document)
+            )
+        )
+    }
+
+    async findDocumentLinks(uri) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return []
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(this.htmlLanguageService.findDocumentLinks(document, null))
+    }
+
+    async findDocumentSymbols(uri) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return []
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.findDocumentSymbols(
+                document,
+                this.htmlLanguageService.parseHTMLDocument(document)
+            )
+        )
+    }
+
+    async getFoldingRanges(uri, context) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return []
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(this.htmlLanguageService.getFoldingRanges(document, context))
+    }
+
+    async getSelectionRanges(uri, positions) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return []
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.getSelectionRanges(
+                document,
+                positions,
+                this.htmlLanguageService.parseHTMLDocument(document)
+            )
+        )
+    }
+
+    async doRename(uri, position, newName) {
+        const document = this.getTextDocument(uri)
+        if (!document) {
+            return null
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+            this.htmlLanguageService.doRename(
+                document,
+                position,
+                newName,
+                this.htmlLanguageService.parseHTMLDocument(document)
+            )
+        )
+    }
+
+    private getTextDocument(uri) {
+        const models = this.ctx.getMirrorModels()
+        for (const model of models) {
+            if (model.uri.toString() === uri) {
+                return TextDocument.create(uri, this.languageId, model.version, model.getValue())
+            }
+        }
+        return null
+    }
+}
+
+self.onmessage = () => {
+    initialize((ctx, createData) => new PsSlidesHtmlWorker(ctx, createData))
+}
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index bec8e70..a0dabf4 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import './style.css'
-import { createEditor } from './editor'
+import { editor } from './editor'
 import { createCodeThumbnail } from './code-to-element'
 import {
     compilePresentation,
     extractStyles,
     slideId,
+    type CompileInput,
     type CompiledPresentation
 } from './slides/compile'
 import { CSS_PLACEHOLDER, HTML_PLACEHOLDER } from './slides/placeholders'
@@ -14,103 +15,32 @@ interface Slide {
     code: string
 }
 
-// The starter slide opens with a <style> tag. Less written inside a slide's
-// <style> tag is scoped to that slide, the global slide's styles are shared
-// by every slide, and `:thisSlide` is the slide's own section — no extra CSS
-// syntax beyond that.
-const STARTER_STYLE = `// Project styles. This is ordinary Less: variables, nesting,
-// mixins and imports all work as usual.
-//
-// A slide's own style tag is scoped to that slide: every rule in it applies
-// to that slide alone. The global slide's styles are shared by all slides.
-// :thisSlide is the slide's own section, never "the visible slide" — handy
-// for state rules: :thisSlide[data-ps-state='current'] { ... }.
+// Slides start empty: the author writes the markup and the Less themselves.
+// Less written inside a slide's `<style>` tag is scoped to that slide, the
+// global slide's styles are shared by every slide, and `:thisSlide` is the
+// slide's own section — no extra CSS syntax beyond that.
 
-@bg: #101010;
-@fg: #f0f0f0;
-@accent: #8fc98f;
+// Sample markup standing in for a real slide. The global-slide tile and the
+// preview while the global slide is selected both show it, so the author can
+// see what the global slide wraps instead of a blank frame.
+const EXAMPLE_CONTENT = '<h1>p/slides</h1><p>This is a paragraph.</p>'
 
-:thisSlide {
-    position: absolute;
-    inset: 0;
-    display: flex;
-    flex-direction: column;
-    justify-content: center;
-    gap: 0.75rem;
-    padding: 3rem;
-    background: @bg;
-    color: @fg;
-    transition: opacity 260ms ease, transform 260ms ease;
-}
+const EXAMPLE_SECTION = `<section data-ps-slide="${slideId(0)}" data-ps-state="current">${EXAMPLE_CONTENT}</section>`
 
-// The runtime moves slides through idle -> entering -> current -> leaving.
-// CSS owns the transition itself; JavaScript only sets data-ps-state.
-// idle and leaving deliberately share values so settling costs no jump.
-:thisSlide[data-ps-state='idle'],
-:thisSlide[data-ps-state='leaving'] {
-    opacity: 0;
-    transform: scale(0.98);
-}
-
-:thisSlide[data-ps-state='entering'],
-:thisSlide[data-ps-state='current'] {
-    opacity: 1;
-    transform: scale(1);
-}
-`
-
-// Shown in the global-slide tile while the global slide is empty: an example
-// frame around a sample slide, so the tile explains what the global slide is
-// for instead of rendering a blank box. Template mode mounts this same sample
-// in the author's own frame.
-const EXAMPLE_SECTION = `<section data-ps-slide="${slideId(0)}" data-ps-state="current"><h1>Example slide</h1><p>The global slide wraps every slide like this.</p></section>`
-
-const EXAMPLE_FRAME = `<style>
-    .ps-example-frame {
-        position: absolute;
-        inset: 0;
-        display: flex;
-        flex-direction: column;
-        gap: 1rem;
-        padding: 2rem;
-        background: #161a22;
-        color: #dbe4f0;
-        font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
-    }
-    .ps-example-frame header {
-        font-size: 1.75rem;
-        font-weight: 650;
-        opacity: 0.85;
-    }
-    .ps-example-frame .ps-example-viewport {
-        position: relative;
-        flex: 1;
-        border-radius: 0.75rem;
-        overflow: hidden;
-    }
-    .ps-example-frame footer {
-        font-size: 1.25rem;
-        opacity: 0.55;
-    }
-</style>
-<div class="ps-example-frame">
-    <header>Example deck</header>
-    <div class="ps-example-viewport">${EXAMPLE_SECTION}</div>
-    <footer>Global slide — wraps every slide</footer>
-</div>`
+const EXAMPLE_FRAME = `${EXAMPLE_SECTION}`
 
 let globalSlide = ''
 
 const slides: Slide[] = [
     {
-        code: `<style>\n${STARTER_STYLE}\n</style>\n<h1>test</h1>`
+        code: ''
     }
 ]
 
-const editor = createEditor()
 const slideList = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>('.slide-list-items')!
 const addSlideButton = document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>('.add-slide')!
 const stage = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>('.stage')!
+const slide = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>('.slide')!
 const compileError = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>('.compile-error')!
 const presentButton = document.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>('.present-button')!
 let currentSlide = 0
@@ -119,8 +49,9 @@ let globalSlideElement: HTMLElement | null = null
 const slideElements = new Map<Slide, HTMLElement>()
 const thumbnailRequests = new Map<number, number>()
 let thumbnailDebounceTimer: number | undefined
-// The last good compile: thumbnails read the stylesheet from here, so a tile
-// is rendered exactly as the presentation renders it.
+// The last good compile of the deck: the preview shows it, and thumbnails read
+// the stylesheet from here, so a tile is rendered exactly as the presentation
+// renders it.
 let lastResult: CompiledPresentation | null = null
 // Bumped by every full list rebuild; async thumbnail builders check it so a
 // stale build can never commit over a newer one.
@@ -160,9 +91,21 @@ function setSlide(index: number) {
         return
     }
 
+    const wasGlobal = currentSlide === -1
     currentSlide = index
+    slide.classList.toggle('global', index === -1)
     showSlideInEditor(index)
     updateSelection()
+
+    if (wasGlobal !== (index === -1)) {
+        // The two selections compile different things, so the runtime is
+        // holding the wrong one. Rebuild now rather than on the debounce, and
+        // swap the deck before moving: goTo against the other deck would clamp
+        // and report the clamp back through onCurrentChange.
+        void rebuildPreview()
+        return
+    }
+
     // The global slide is shared markup, not a step of the presentation, so it
     // never moves the runtime.
     if (index >= 0) {
@@ -185,12 +128,40 @@ function scheduleCompile() {
     }, 250)
 }
 
+/**
+ * The global slide is shared markup, not a step of the presentation, so while
+ * it is selected the preview shows it wrapped around the example content
+ * instead of one of the real slides. That is a separate compile from the deck —
+ * and the deck's is needed regardless, because the tiles mirror it.
+ */
+function deckInput(): CompileInput {
+    return { slides: slides.map((slide) => slide.code), global: globalSlide }
+}
+
+function exampleInput(): CompileInput {
+    return { slides: [EXAMPLE_CONTENT], global: globalSlide }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Put a compile on screen. Synchronous, so the deck lands the moment its
+ * compile resolves.
+ */
+function showCompiled(result: CompiledPresentation): void {
+    runtime?.setTemplate(result.template)
+    // The global-slide preview is a one-slide stand-in: keep the real
+    // current slide in history so returning to the deck lands where it was.
+    runtime?.setSlides(result.slides, { keepIndex: currentSlide === -1 })
+    runtime?.setCss(result.css)
+    if (currentSlide >= 0) {
+        runtime?.goTo(currentSlide)
+    }
+}
+
 async function rebuildPreview(): Promise<void> {
+    const showingGlobal = currentSlide === -1
     try {
-        const result = await compilePresentation({
-            slides: slides.map((slide) => slide.code),
-            global: globalSlide
-        })
+        const result = await compilePresentation(deckInput())
+        const example = showingGlobal ? await compilePresentation(exampleInput()) : null
 
         compileError.hidden = true
         compileError.textContent = ''
@@ -204,13 +175,9 @@ async function rebuildPreview(): Promise<void> {
             // the editor and the selection there too.
             setSlide(runtime.current)
         }
-        runtime.setTemplate(result.template)
-        runtime.setSlides(result.slides)
-        runtime.setCss(result.css)
-        // Follow the slide being edited; the deck may just have grown.
-        if (currentSlide >= 0) {
-            runtime.goTo(currentSlide)
-        }
+        // This pass's own output is what the preview shows: the global slide
+        // gets the stand-in, everything else the deck.
+        showCompiled(currentSlide === -1 ? (example ?? result) : result)
 
         // Tiles embed the stylesheet (and, in template mode, the frame), so a
         // change to either makes every tile stale. The first compile builds
@@ -250,7 +217,9 @@ function buildThumbnailHtml(index: number, code: string): string {
                 .split(CSS_PLACEHOLDER)
                 .join('')
         }
-        return global
+        // Shared markup: it wraps every slide, so show it around the example
+        // rather than on its own, which would render no slide at all.
+        return `${global}\n${EXAMPLE_CONTENT}`
     }
 
     const extracted = extractStyles(code).html
@@ -472,7 +441,7 @@ addSlideButton.addEventListener('click', async () => {
 })
 
 presentButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
-    stage.requestFullscreen().catch(() => {
+    slide.requestFullscreen().catch(() => {
         // Browsers can refuse fullscreen; presenting inside the panel still works.
     })
 })
diff --git a/src/slides/runtime.ts b/src/slides/runtime.ts
index eb880b6..edf8dad 100644
--- a/src/slides/runtime.ts
+++ b/src/slides/runtime.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { CompiledSlide } from './compile'
 import { CSS_PLACEHOLDER, HTML_PLACEHOLDER } from './placeholders'
+import { editor } from '../editor'
 
 /**
  * Slide lifecycle. The runtime moves slides through these states; CSS owns how
@@ -34,8 +35,13 @@ export interface Runtime {
     goTo(index: number): void
     next(): void
     previous(): void
-    /** Swap the deck in place (after recompiling) without resetting the view. */
-    setSlides(slides: readonly CompiledSlide[]): void
+    /**
+     * Swap the deck in place (after recompiling) without resetting the view.
+     * `keepIndex` leaves the current slide recorded in history alone when the
+     * new deck is shorter — the runtime still clamps what it displays, but the
+     * slide you were on is not overwritten with the clamp.
+     */
+    setSlides(slides: readonly CompiledSlide[], options?: { keepIndex?: boolean }): void
     /**
      * Set the global slide; a template re-renders the scene around the slides.
      * Order-independent: a scene re-render re-applies the stored stylesheet.
@@ -173,6 +179,7 @@ function writeIndex(index: number, push: boolean): void {
 }
 
 function ignoresKeyboard(event: KeyboardEvent): boolean {
+    if(editor.hasTextFocus()) return true;
     const target = event.target
     if (!(target instanceof HTMLElement)) {
         return false
@@ -267,7 +274,7 @@ export function createRuntime(
         void settle(generation, targetRecord)
     }
 
-    function setSlides(deckUpdate: readonly CompiledSlide[]): void {
+    function setSlides(deckUpdate: readonly CompiledSlide[], slideOptions: { keepIndex?: boolean } = {}): void {
         if (destroyed) {
             return
         }
@@ -292,7 +299,9 @@ export function createRuntime(
 
         if (records.length > 0 && current > records.length - 1) {
             current = records.length - 1
-            writeIndex(current, false)
+            if (!slideOptions.keepIndex) {
+                writeIndex(current, false)
+            }
         }
 
         if (structureChanged) {
@@ -443,7 +452,9 @@ export function createRuntime(
         goTo,
         next,
         previous,
-        setSlides,
+        setSlides(slides, slideOptions) {
+            setSlides(slides, slideOptions)
+        },
         setTemplate,
         setCss,
         get current() {
diff --git a/src/style.css b/src/style.css
index 6be6e83..25a6f16 100644
--- a/src/style.css
+++ b/src/style.css
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ body {
     width: 100%;
     height: 100%;
     overflow: hidden;
-    background-color: var(--bg-sunken);
 }
 
 .stage:focus {
@@ -259,8 +258,16 @@ body {
 }
 
 .slide {
-    all: revert;
+    all: initial;
     aspect-ratio: 16/9;
     width: 100%;
     height: auto;
+    background-color: white;
+}
+
+/* The global slide is shared markup, not a step of the deck: mark the surface
+   so it reads as different from a presented slide. */
+.slide.global {
+    outline: 2px solid var(--accent);
+    outline-offset: -2px;
 }
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