Visual selection issues.

[yashamon]

Vistual selection is currently problematic. For example:

foo bar epsilon delta

cursor on foo. I want to select bar epsilon. Move by w, foo is is selected, go to Visual mode, foo that stays selected. This is almost never what the user intends. If I wanted my visual selection to start with foo I would have used visual selection right away.

So after moving to bar, I have to remove the selection of foo first. And you can't even escape, you must move the cursor around to remove selection.

This issue can be fixed by complicated remapping, which totally defeats the idea of helix to be simpler than neovim. In neovim this already behaves correctly because the movement w is itself modal. In other words as stated by many users, out of the box neovim actually requires less keystrokes in normal use scenarios and is more intuitive to boot.

A simple fix in helix would be to force V to clear all previous selections by default maybe adding another command to enter visual mode and keep previous selection.

Another issue is so bizarre it might be a bug. Example:

foo bar epsilon delta

cursor on bar V/delta does not select until delta, it just jumps to delta. How could this possibly be intended?