Don't remove whitespaces after pressing Enter

[DoctorRyner]

It's convenient to navigate indented code, it's better to implement an option that allows you to keep trailing spaces. Removing trailing spaces interferes with indentation and navigation

[DoctorRyner]

Fixed with (not quite but I'm trying to come up with a better way):

"S-ret" = "open_above"
"ret" = "open_below"

[DoctorRyner]

No, it doesn't work actually and I don't know how to fix it with shortcuts

[pascalkuthe]

It's intended behavior and matches other editor like vim. I don't think adding an option for this is worth doing.

[DoctorRyner]

@pascalkuthe how to achieve this then? Vim is configurable enough for achieving this

[the-mikedavis]

Also see #5159 which discusses this. I don't understand when keeping trailing whitespace is a good thing, so I'd prefer we don't make this configurable.

[pascalkuthe]

template languages basically always provide a textual placeholder you can put in the text (like {{}}) which would make these spaces non-trailing. If this is meant for manual editing then a snippet makes way more sense than this.

[goyalyashpal]

If this is meant for manual editing then a snippet makes way more sense than this.

👍 nice

oh, and so, snippet too does have placeholder right? i.e. these won't be trailing in there?

#395

[pascalkuthe]

Actually in your case it looks like adding in the trailing commas would be enough to fix most of these cases.

But yeah snippet tabstops have placeholders that get automatically removed when you jump to them so that would be the most useful fix for this usecase (that is still wip, #9801 contains most of the heavy lifting).

[goyalyashpal]

trailing commas would be enough to fix most of these cases

yeah, but things like yaml, toml, etc don't allow trailing commas. but i get ur point :-)

[raum-dellamorte]

Keeping whitespace is preferable when the user desires to keep whitespace. I really do enjoy helix and find it far more intuitive than vim, but I would like to have exactly as many spaces saved to a file as I placed in the file. I typed them, I should be able to keep them. To have my work undone is maddening. I don't understand why this would not be considered to be a configurable preference of the user. By all means leave the default at what it is, but give me a way to turn it off. Would it help if I said "Please"?

[DoctorRyner]

@the-mikedavis formatters already remove all trailing spaces but when helix removes it after pressing Enter, it interferes with text editing. You can't just enter + move_line_up, you need to insert like 3 tabs or something or to exit to normal mode to execute a command

[DoctorRyner]

Pretty much yes, you need to needlessly switch modes and execute commands instead of just navigating up. And you don't really get anything, because formatter removes trailing spaces anyways

[pascalkuthe]

Insertmode is only intended for temporary inserting short burst of text. Helix is fundamentally a modal editor. We are not interested in support non-modal or semi-modal usecases or reducing mode switching

[DoctorRyner]

I mean removing trailing spaces has nothing to do with being a modal editor. A modal editor can pretty much have any of these 2 behaviours. Dealing with trailing spaces is a work of a formatter generally

[pascalkuthe]

, you need to needlessly switch modes and execute commands instead of just navigating up

insertmode is not meant for navigation

[the-mikedavis]

Relatively few languages have a formatter. We can't delegate trailing whitespace handling to formatters