Is there a whichwrap option?

[irevoire]

Hello,

I would love to have a whichwrap option like in vim. Basically, the idea would be that, when I'm at the end of a line and type right, I should just stay at the end of my line. The same goes for the start of the line and left.

Is this something planned?

[kirawi]

From the documentation, it sounds like the Home (start line) and End (end line) keys. https://docs.helix-editor.com/keymap.html

[archseer]

@kirawi you should read the linked documentation, it's about configuring this behavior, not about specific keys :P

[archseer]

There's no configuration option and I'm not sure if we want this to be configurable.

Currently everything wraps: h/l used to stop at the end of line but after a discussion with @cessen we removed this limitation and had it match kakoune. I personally don't use this wrapping behavior, but what's the rationale for explicitly disabling it?

[irevoire]

I would love to see this behaviour back, it was one of the reason why I went back to vim after using kakoune for ~6 months ☹️

(But overall I'm really in love with helix and don't plan to quit soon even if this behaviour is never implemented! Thanks for all the great works!)

[Omnikar]

I personally think this can be nice to have, if a bit niche, but I don't really think there's much of a reason not to make this configurable. Though it barely affects me, I think if it were configurable, I'd turn wrapping off.

[yowayb]

@irevoire just curious what the benefit would be?

[ArijanJ]

curious what the benefit would be?

Just preventing complexity, IMO.

We've always had 4 directional keys, and making half of them go diagonally only at certain times is plain confusing.

[irevoire]

Yeah, especially when you have multiple cursors and by hitting right one goes to the next line :weary: Even after two years of usage I still think about it at least once a day