Helix cannot delete the last blank line(s) of the buffer when the cursor is at the very last line

[OpenFoam-User]

Steps to reproduce:

• open helix.
• press i.
• Press Enter 5 times.
• press Esc
• press ge

Now if you keep pressing d key it won't remove all the empty lines. (as it is expected in neovim).

What is the expected behavior:

I expect the cursor to move up to the previous empty line so when you keep pressing d it will delete all the line but it seems that this is not the case for helix.

[the-mikedavis]

Helix's d behaves sort-of like Vi's x if Vi's x could act on newlines - it deletes the current selection and the cursor itself is a 1-width selection. In the reproduction steps, the cursor is resting on a newline character and d deletes that character. Then the cursor rests on the EOF character which cannot be deleted. This can be easier to visualize if you enable visible whitespace: https://docs.helix-editor.com/configuration.html#editorwhitespace-section.

This is the intended behavior for d.

[pascalkuthe]

Closing this issue as it's intended behaviour