Cursor jumps on :reload-all

[michaelst0]

Summary

When I do :reload-all, the content of the window jump. Sometimes the cursor is positioned at the top of what looks like a blank buffer, but scrolling up reveals the contents of the file.

Note that the file I'm looking at has not changed.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. hx
2. Open some file
3. Do :reload-all

I expected this to happen:

Contents to be reloaded from disk. Cursor remains in current position.

Instead, this happened:

Contents reloaded from disk. Cursor jumps to random(?) position.

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

macOS

Terminal Emulator

kitty

Helix Version

helix 22.08.1 (e6dad96)

[David-Else]

@mangas it seems like reload-all has problems as it is reported to panic too #4878 , could you take a look?

[mangas]

I am not able to replicate this. Can you maybe create an example with a few files where this happens? Or maybe a repo that you were using?

[michaelst0]

This happens when I edit Go files.

I use gopls, and golines for formatting.

I use Helix at work so I don’t currently have any example files or repos to share. I’ll try putting something together that triggers this that I can share.

[mangas]

awesome, thanks !

[michaelst0]

I checked out https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-proxy repo in order to reproduce this bug.

1. hx
2. Open cmd/root.go
3. Split window into left / right
4. Open internal/proxy/proxy.go in right window
5. Move cursor in right window to line 35
6. :reload-all
7. Contents of right window shift up so that line 35 is now 6 lines from the top of the window

Where to move the cursor in step 5. and what happens at step 7. seem a bit random to me.

I tested this in kitty and iTerm2 and I get the same behaviour in both.

Let me know if you need any more info.

config.toml

theme =  "onelight"

[editor]
rulers = [100]
cursorline = true
color-modes = true

[editor.file-picker]
hidden = false

[editor.indent-guides]
render = true

[editor.cursor-shape]
insert = "bar"
normal = "block"
select = "underline"

[editor.lsp]
auto-signature-help = false

[keys.normal]
"esc" = ":wa"
C-r = ":reload-all"

[keys.insert]
C-p = "signature_help"

languages.toml

[[language]]
name = "python"
language-server = { command = "pyright-langserver", args = ["--stdio"] }
config = ""
formatter = { command = "poetry", args = ["run", "black","-"]}
auto-format = true

[[language]]
name = "go"
formatter = { command = "golines"}
auto-format = true

[mangas]

@mchlstckl I'm unable to replicate this on linux 🤔 @the-mikedavis any ideas?

[gabydd]

I wonder if this stems from formatting?

[the-mikedavis]

I can reproduce:

You need a short enough terminal size to see the jump.

The problem is calling View::ensure_cursor_in_view for all view_ids. View::ensure_cursor_in_view moves the viewport to ensure that the given document's cursor is visible. In the reproduction case, when reloading the right-hand side split, we first ensure that the cursor for root.go (on line 1) is in view, then ensure that the cursor for proxy.go (on line 35) is in view. This shifts the view so that the cursor is at the bottom of the visible viewport (minus scrolloff).

We should only call View::ensure_cursor_in_view if the view is currently looking at the document (view.doc == doc_id). We lazily ensure that the cursor is in view when we switch a view to look at another document in Editor::replace_document_in_view (called from Editor::switch) so it's only necessary to update the view if it's currently focused on the doc.

[mangas]

@mchlstckl @the-mikedavis can you please test #4901 and let me know if you can still replicate the behavior? I wasn't able to replicate locally but I think this may fix it according to Mike's explanation

[michaelst0]

I checked out your branch and installed hx from it. I went through the reproduction steps. The window no longer jumps. Looks good to me!