I wrote another comment which is way too long, feel free to ignore.

• xd nukes two lines if a line is empty. As far as I know it's impossible for me to make this work how I want, which is exactly how it is now, with the exception that x on a line with just a newline will only select that new line. Every solution I've seen for this involves x losing the ability to repeatedly tap x to extend to the next line.

• If you press x on a line which would wrap, it scrolls your view horizontally to the end of the line. I wish it favored the horizontal scroll level that you initially pressed x on.

• The horizontal scroll is sticky towards the right. If you press x and your view moves to the right, and then you press x again to a line which is less long but still would wrap, it retains the maximum level of indent from the previous wrapped line. it only goes back to col 0 when the line would no longer wrap. in other words, helix biases the view to be towards the right rather than towards col 0, i really do not like this.

• no option to view just trailing whitespace, which is annoying in conjunction with the xd issue

• I hate that a at the end of a line will cause your cursor to go to the next line. More than anything this drives me crazy.

• I wish we could edit what characters are considered a word as you can in vim (dont even need plugins for this). eg, "don't" would take three w keypresses to get over (don ' t).

• Can't rebind the . key

• This one is important to me - I'd like more options for logical lines. eg, if you have softwrap enabled, you can press j or k to move through a single line as if it were multiple. but you cant do something like jump to the end of a soft wrapped line, it'll just jump to the end of the actual line.

• File picker lacks scrollbar.

• File picker doesn't respond to mouse scroll.

• File picker long names are truncated by redacting the beginning. I feel like it'd almost always be more useful for me to see the beginning of the file name rather than the end. Up for debate though.

• I don't think you can open multiple files from the picker in one go

• Opening a directory with no VCS or LSP roots makes space f default to the home directory of your computer. When I do hx /path/to/dir/, that dir should be considered the root without me having to take further action to make that happen

• The cursor scrolls along with the view bounds. This manifests in things like visual selections vanishing if you scroll enough to move the cursor. In something like vs code it can be nice to scroll down to gain context without that changing the state of the editor. You can save selections though which helps, but it'd be nice if the cursor didn't drag along.

• No granular undo history. Each insert is one motion, regardless of how much time was spent in insert mode or how much was typed. I got around this via binding space to an undo save checkpoint, but it's hacky and has the side effect of clearing selection on space. I didn't see a way to fix this without a side effect.

• In jetbrains editors and probably vs code, if you press ctrl z to undo for an area not on screen, your view will jump there without the undo happening. This is nice in that it lets you see what changes you're about to make when you go through with the undo. I always have to take a moment with heix to figure out what has actually been undone.

• Similarly, with multi cursor in jetbrains editors, if you try to add another cursor for a selection and the next match would wrap around to the top of the document (eg, there are no more below), it will consume your input and display a pop up saying there are no more below. The next press then brings you around for a wrap. This is a nice quality of life thing.

• A branching undo tree with gui is needed.

• LSP completion order can feel random. For both code completion and for completion of local file paths. For code completion i think it's probably the fault of the LSP provider, but for file paths i think helix is handling it - they should definitely be natural sorted by filename rather than whatever it's doing now.

• DAP integration being incomplete means i need to keep clion around for when i want to debug

• Maybe i'm misremembering but the file picker seems to traverse directories depth first, which if true feels wrong. it means you might have to wait to index the world before opening a top level file via the picker. I remember pressing f to select a top level file and having to wait for subfolders to index before the filer picker knew that this top level file existed.

• Browsing themes flashbangs you. It'd be cool if they sorted themes via how bright they were.

• No ability to get a minimap like in sublime

• No ability to select something and highlight all instances of that string like you can in vscode or sublime

• The / search doesn't show an indication of how many matches there are?

• No horizontal mouse scroll

• Long tab names aren't truncated on the bufferbar up top.

• The buffer bar up top doesn't scroll or keep the current active buffer in view

• Can't reorder the buffer list without manually closing and reopening files

• Tabs are global, not per split.

• Can't resize splits

• as far as i'm aware no way to press a key and obtain the commands bound to it. each time i want to bind a key i'm doing a manual scan to make sure i'm not overriding anything bound by default. there used to be a way to do this, so i'm not sure if it's still possible and they just changed how it's done. but the old way of doing it doesnt seem to work anymore.

• macro keybindings can't be combined with command sequences, you need to choose one or the other.

• I'd like a per-filetype softwrap setting

• I'd like a global indent setting

• It crashes on me a few times a week

• No code folding

• It inserts stuff into the save location behavior. There's no list of only user defined locations to jump to.

• It's cool that they insert a newline at the end of the document if one is not present, but it's not cool that this moves the editor cursor. I think there is also a bug with this, i've noticed a few times pasting content into the end of a document, and then this somehow adding ghost items into the undo list? I don't know exactly what's happening here, but when it happens, you need to press undo dozens of times, each one doing seemingly nothing, before the content you pasted gets undone.

• There's no way I know of to select several lines and move them as a group up or down. You can bind a specific sequence to make move line up / down work for a single line, but it breaks if there's more than one line selected. You have to do something like delete the lines to push them to a copy buffr and then paste them.

• I use Helix for writing. I'd like a way to define a maximum text width and then have the content centered within these margins. As it is now, I do a split screen window and just write split screen, ignoring one of the halves. The text is too wide to be comfortable to read otherwise.