From 9584b0682b45f17aaa42157540947904d867777a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Schneider Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:42:53 -0300 Subject: Give prompts their own line to type into instead of the tag's tail A search, pipe or Save prompt wrote its marker and answer onto the end of the tag, so the tag's cursor, its selection, its 9P writes and a prompt abandoned by a click all shared one buffer: the abandoned text stayed in the tag and a 9P write landed inside the prompt. The answer is now its own Text on the pane, typed in insert mode and shown on the notice band where it was already drawn, and the tag never holds any of it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/helix-keys.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/helix-keys.md b/docs/helix-keys.md index 4de3901a..0813c193 100644 --- a/docs/helix-keys.md +++ b/docs/helix-keys.md @@ -235,8 +235,9 @@ other cursors where they are (`FileSnap` holds one range). ### Regex selection (`s` / `S`) — the interactive pair -Both arm the tag input the same way `/` does — the pattern is typed into the -tag tail after a marker, no popup — and both re-run on EVERY keystroke, from +Both arm the prompt the same way `/` does — the pattern is typed after a +marker on the prompt's own line in the notice band, no popup — and both +re-run on EVERY keystroke, from the selection the prompt opened on (`Pane.sel_snap`). That is what makes the selection a live preview, what makes typing a pattern one character at a time land where pasting it whole would, and what makes Esc a plain restore. Enter -- cgit v1.3