"C" + "," keeps only the last selection

[tcoratger]

Summary

3"C" (Copy selection onto the next line (Add cursor below)) + "," (Keep only the primary selection) results in keeping only the last selection.

Reproduction Steps

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Helix log

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Platform

macOS

Terminal Emulator

Warp

Helix Version

hx -V

[CptPotato]

, is actually behaving correctly. When using C the newly inserted cursor becomes the primary (the lightest cursor is the primary in the screenshot):

If you want to keep a specific selection you can "rotate" your selections using ( and ) before discarding the secondary ones.

[tcoratger]

But horizontally, it behaves differently:

• x to select the whole line

• s to search an item inside (test in my case)

• I obtain different cursors (2 in my case)

• If I press , only the first persists
  

• Following this, I was expecting the same behaviour vertically
  

[CptPotato]

Right, the tutor makes it sound like it should work the other way around.

I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior of C, I personally don't have a strong preference here. Maybe somebody else can chime in?

[the-mikedavis]

Yep this behavior of C is intentional and it matches Kakoune. C adds a new selection based on the location of the primary selection. If C didn't make the new selection the primary selection then C would only work once.

The tutor should be updated to say that the first cursor will be removed, here:

helix/runtime/tutor

Line 542 in 0f562df

4. Type , to remove the second cursor.

C and s are not really related and they behave very differently already when you have multiple selections: C adds a new selection and keeps the current selections unchanged while s subsplits all existing selections.