Fixing chained parents by simplifying the tree on unsplit

Author: Neko-Box-Coder

internal/views/splits.go

@@ -479,9 +479,31 @@ func (n *Node) Unsplit() bool {
 	if n.parent.IsLeaf() {
 		return n.parent.Unsplit()
 	}
+
+	n.parent.Simplify()
 	return true
 }
 
+// Simplify removes unnecessary chained parents
+func (n *Node) Simplify() {
+	if n.parent == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	ind := 0
+	if len(n.children) == 1 {
+		for i, c := range n.parent.children {
+			if c.id == n.id {
+				ind = i
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	parent := n.parent
+	n.parent.children[ind] = n.children[0]
+	parent.Simplify()
+}
+
 // String returns the string form of the node and all children (used for debugging)
 func (n *Node) String() string {
 	var strf func(n *Node, ident int) string