pardes.git/docs/selections.md, branch release-0.24

A B1 sweep held past a pane's edge scrolls the body, as acme's frselect does

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

Dragging a selection beyond the top or bottom of a pane stopped at the last visible row. Now, while B1 is held past the body's top or bottom (at a pane that reaches the screen's bottom, its last row, since the pointer cannot leave the screen), the body scrolls a line a tick; the sweep's start keeps its place in the text, and a sweep that scrolled ends as the text's own selection. Also here: a ctrl-click is not half a double-click (lspdebug's golden stays as it was), and a test that clicks many points in a row resets the double-click between them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Everything a B1 chord does while B1 is down is one undo step

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

B1-B2 then B1-B3 cut and pasted as two undo steps. acme marks the file once per B1 hold (text.c:881, textselect), so the pair is a copy. The chord now takes one undo point when it begins and its edits share it until B1 comes up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

A double-click selects as acme's does: a word, a line, a bracketed or quoted text

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

A second B1 click at the same cell selected nothing more. Now, as acme's textdoubleclick (plan9port text.c:1407), it selects up to the match of a bracket just before or after the point, the whole line at a line's start or end, the quoted text inside ' " `, or else the word, in bodies, tags and terminals in normal mode. A plain click still puts the caret on its cell. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

A selection's other ranges live out of line, made at the second range and freed at one

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

The ranges beside the primary were an inline array in every Text, which at 1024 grew each pane by about 60 KiB. They are now allocated when a second range appears (Text.reserveSels) and given back when the selection is one range again (Text.dropSels); a column's or the workspace's tag allocates from Text.gpa, any other text from its pane's. A refused tag edit restores them by copy. The Pane size budget is back to 128 KiB, and a test holds that a single cursor allocates nothing for them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

K and Alt-K keep or drop the ranges a regex matches in; Alt-: turns every range forward

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

K and Alt-K share the s/S prompt, which now carries a mode rather than a split flag: a range stays when a match starts inside it (K) or when none does (Alt-K), the primary becomes the first, and keeping none leaves the selection as it was (helix keep_or_remove_matches). Alt-: is ensure_selections_forward. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

A selection holds up to 1024 ranges on the desktop, 64 on the board

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

The limit was 64 everywhere, which helix-golf's enumerate_and_align outgrows (%s |\d+ makes 121 ranges). It is now memory.limits.selections, per platform, and the counts that hold it are u16. The ranges stay inline in each Text, so a pane grows by about 80 KiB on the desktop (three texts and the regex prompt's snapshot); the Pane size budget in Terminal.zig moves from 128 to 160 KiB and says why. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Q records keys into a register and q types them again; . repeats the last insert

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

Macro.zig keeps keys to be typed again. Q records into @ (or ") in helix's key notation until the next Q; q replays a register's keys count times through the modal handling, where Esc does not hop panes and Enter, Tab and Space neither look, execute nor open the leader. . replays the normal command that entered the last insert session once and what was typed in it count times (helix repeat_last_insert). a at the end of the text now adds the newline helix's append_mode does, which a terminal's text does not. helix-golf's invert_dictionary passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

The helix-golf steps that walk search hits are waived, so hxgolf can pass

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

reverse_golf_example from ""N on needs *, N and n to walk the search register; in pardes those keys are the acme look ring, by decision. The seven steps are pinned in golf-waivers.jsonl, so a new mismatch stands out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Every range lives through insert mode, carried through each edit

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

Insert mode dropped the selection on the first key and restored only the primary's appended-over span on Esc. Now each insert-mode edit is made at the bare cursor as before, and the range is then carried through it with helix's Range::map rules: typing slides an i range and stretches an a range, Enter (which now also drops the blanks before the cursor, as helix does) slides or stretches by what the cursor moved, and an arrow collapses. The replay gives every other range the same. Esc after a pulls each range's end back by one (helix restore_cursor), which replaces Text.append_at. The wiX-edit-drops-sel and msel-append waivers are gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Registers hold a value per range, and " names one

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

Registers.zig replaces the one yank buffer: every register keeps a value per range, y fills them in document order, and p, P, R and insert Ctrl-r put value i at range i, repeating the last (helix paste_impl). " names the register for the next command; _ swallows, # numbers the ranges, . is each range's text, % the file's name, / the last s/S pattern, and + and * are the system clipboard through the ClipYank and ClipPaste paths. SPC y now writes + alone, as helix's does. The acme chords and a paste into a terminal take the default register joined by newlines. The msel-yank-paste waiver is gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5