From 66c0106691e4de925011f314200e85ee265b7861 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Schneider Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:58:46 -0300 Subject: Run the word under the cursor when Enter is pressed in a header The workspace and column tags hold nothing but commands, and before they became texts Enter on one of them ran it: Enter on Newcol made a column. Since then Enter looked the word up, as it does in a pane's tag, which only searched for it. It runs it again, and the header lets go of the keyboard first as a pane tag does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/helix-keys.md | 2 +- docs/tags.md | 9 +++++---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/helix-keys.md b/docs/helix-keys.md index 64fa2e24..28641a71 100644 --- a/docs/helix-keys.md +++ b/docs/helix-keys.md @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ language-backend queries, and the shell pipe. | `Esc` (insert) | back to normal mode, cursor right after the insertion (no vim left-step) | | helix-verified | | `Enter` (normal) | acme **look** chord: EXPLICIT selection, else file-ish word under cursor | pardes-specific, keep (helix normal-mode Enter unbound). Covers helix `gf`. Implicit motion residue falls back to the cursor word | pardes-specific | | `Tab` (normal) | acme **execute** chord | pardes-specific, keep; explicit-selection rule as Enter | pardes-specific | -| `:` (normal, body or tag) | in the body, focuses the pane's tag in normal mode at its remembered cursor (the first time, on `Save`); in the tag, goes back to the body; in a column or workspace tag, back to the active pane. The tag's normal and insert modes ARE the body's: every motion, selection, edit and undo works there, `0` meaning the start of the editable text. Enter/Tab Look/Exec the word under the cursor or the selection, and executing hands the keyboard back to the body first. Clicks choose a new cursor position and type into the tag. | Each tag keeps its own cursor during the session. Cursor, selections and undo are offsets in the tag's own text; the computed path/marker/page before it is seen by the mouse, Look and Exec but not by keyboard motions. File-name changes are staged as described in [editable tags](tags.md). | pardes-specific | +| `:` (normal, body or tag) | in the body, focuses the pane's tag in normal mode at its remembered cursor (the first time, on `Save`); in the tag, goes back to the body; in a column or workspace tag, back to the active pane. The tag's normal and insert modes ARE the body's: every motion, selection, edit and undo works there, `0` meaning the start of the editable text. Tab runs the word under the cursor or the selection and Enter looks it up (in a column or workspace tag Enter runs it too), and either hands the keyboard back to the body first. Clicks choose a new cursor position and type into the tag. | Each tag keeps its own cursor during the session. Cursor, selections and undo are offsets in the tag's own text; the computed path/marker/page before it is seen by the mouse, Look and Exec but not by keyboard motions. File-name changes are staged as described in [editable tags](tags.md). | pardes-specific | | `Ctrl-w k` / `SPC w k` (pane with nothing above) | focuses its column's tag, then the workspace tag; with `ColumnTags` disabled it goes directly to the workspace. `Ctrl-w j` walks back to the panes, `Ctrl-w h`/`l` walk the column tags. Headers edit exactly as a pane tag does. | Column commands target that column's active pane, or its first pane when coming from elsewhere. Workspace and column text are independently editable and persist in dumps. See [editable tags](tags.md). | pardes-specific | | `Ctrl-w` + `h/j/k/l`/arrows | directional pane focus prefix — editor normal mode only | pardes' own window handling (helix window mode skipped, section C). Runs the SAME `Left`/`Down`/`Up`/`Right` builtins `SPC w h/j/k/l` runs; Raw **tty** mode forwards Ctrl-w to the child. Insert mode owns `Ctrl-w` = delete-word-back, so a tag being TYPED into swallows it; from a tag in normal mode it moves focus to the neighbour's BODY, as from a body, and from the top pane `Up` reaches the column and workspace tags | pardes-specific | | `Alt-n` | new terminal below (outside raw tty) | shadows helix `Alt-n` TS sibling-select — skipped anyway (tree-sitter) | pardes-specific | diff --git a/docs/tags.md b/docs/tags.md index ecca046a..45a0cb3b 100644 --- a/docs/tags.md +++ b/docs/tags.md @@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ in the tag's own text: `0` goes to its start, not the path's. Left-click a tag or a header to type into it at the click, in insert mode; tags reveal the caret horizontally when text is wider than their column. -Esc is normal mode, where everything a body's normal mode does works, and -Enter looks up and Tab executes the word under the cursor (or an explicit -selection), in either mode. Executing gives the keyboard back to the body -first, so `Del`, `Kill` and `Restore` never return into a tag that is gone. +Esc is normal mode, where everything a body's normal mode does works. There +Tab executes the word under the cursor (or an explicit selection), and Enter +looks it up in a pane's tag but runs it in a column or workspace tag, whose +words are all commands; in insert mode Enter is a new line. Executing gives +the keyboard back to the body first, so `Del`, `Kill` and `Restore` never return into a tag that is gone. Pasted text goes to the focused tag, not to the file or embedded shell beneath it. -- cgit v1.3