pardes.git/test/hxcases/goldens.jsonl, branch main

gw labels the words in view and jumps to the one whose label is typed

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

helix goto_word: the words of two or more word characters between the view's first and last lines get two-letter labels, nearest the cursor first, one forward and one back in turn (modal.jumpWords). The next two keys choose one and select it, stretching the selection to it in select mode; any other key takes the labels away. The words live on Pane.jump, and renderBody paints their labels over the body's cells in the selection colours, the one change on the render side. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Z arms the view keys until Esc, and zm puts the cursor's column mid-view

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

Z is helix's sticky view mode: the z keys stay armed after each until Esc, which leaves the mode and does nothing else (no pane hop). zm is align_view_middle: an unwrapped view scrolls sideways so the cursor's column is in its middle. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Tab after text leaves the syntax node in insert mode; Shift-Tab indents

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

helix smart_tab: in insert mode, Tab where text precedes the cursor on its line moves past the end of the node the cursor is in, the parent-node end of Alt-e; in leading blanks it indents. Only where the file has a grammar: the reference pins smart tab off, which a file without a grammar agrees with, so there Tab still indents. Shift-Tab is insert_tab, and the differential harness now reads the S- modifier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Insert Ctrl-s commits an undo checkpoint mid-session

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

helix commit_undo_checkpoint: u after the insert session goes back to the text as it was at Ctrl-s, a second u to before the session. It pushes an undo snapshot where the session stands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Alt-u and Alt-U undo and redo

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

helix's earlier/later walk its history tree by time; pardes's history is a line, where earlier and later are undo and redo, so the keys are aliases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

g. goes to where the last edit ended

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helix goto_last_modification: every range moves to the end of the last change (the start of a deletion, the end of an insertion), extending in select mode. The position is kept on the Text in surface rows, set where setEditText hands a body its new text, so a terminal's typed text has one too and moves with its scrollback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

Alt-o, Alt-i and the other tree-sitter keys walk the file's syntax tree

2026-10-01T03:12:15Z

helix's expand/shrink, previous/next sibling, all siblings, all children and parent-node end/start (Alt-o/up, Alt-i/down, Alt-p/left, Alt-right, Alt-a, Alt-I, Alt-e, Alt-b; Alt-n stays the new terminal) walk a whole-file parse the file keeps (File.node_tree), made on the first such key after an edit and reused until the next, never per key. syntax.walkNodes follows helix's TreeCursor over every node, anonymous ones included, and Alt-i goes back to what Alt-o grew from while the selection still holds it. The harness runs without grammars, so the cases prove the plain-text no-op; a test replays eleven JSON walks whose results were taken from the installed hx. 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