Counterintuitive behavior with the bar cursor

[dstrelnikov]

Summary

I prefer the bar cursor shape, however the selection looks counterintuitive. I'm not sure this will be considered as a bug cause the cursor is supposed to select a single character in helix.

On the screenshot 'r' does not seem to be selected despite it is. The same issue with the backward selection.

Reproduction Steps

Set

[editor.cursor-shape]
normal = "bar"

Open helix and type a word. Then switch back to the normal mode. Press b and see the first cursor-selection issue. Press e and see a similar issue.

Helix log

No response

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

Konsole

Helix Version

2.05-dev (deb7ee6)

[archseer]

This is because the selection shifts by one space when insert mode is entered. Would need to adjust rendering in normal mode.

[pascalkuthe]

This was partially fixed by #5575. The only remaining issue is that we might want to move the bar cursor to the right by one when it's the head similar to insert mode so it appears at the end of the selection instead of at the start of the last selected cursor.

[varaskkar]

The only remaining issue is that we might want to move the bar cursor to the right by one when it's the head similar to insert mode

Yes please!! This fix would be great. I use insert mode a lot and this bug is really pesky.

I have this keymap in my config:

m = ["trim_selections", "search_selection", "search_next"]

When I wanna search for the char ; I press the "m" key when the cursor is to the left of the ";" and it works. But, if I select the char ; then it actually selects ;s with s being the next character, which it shouldn't pick up.