Widen criteria for "jumps"

[seanwarman]

Many movements aren't considered "jumps". For example "]" movements or pressing "%" to select the whole file.

After these commands I'd expect to be able to jump the cursor back to my previous position (which is closer to Vim's functionality).

I would even argue to define more movements as jumps than Vim does. For example cursor movements that include counts like "20k" or "3w", could actually be really useful.

[the-mikedavis]

You can accomplish this manually by using C-s, or automatically by changing any command you want to add a jumplist entry to include the push_selection command. For example:

# ~/.config/helix/config.toml
[keys.normal]
"%" = ["select_all", "push_selection"]

The jumplist is not meant to be a replacement for #1596

[seanwarman]

That's brilliant! Thanks.

[seanwarman]

In the version of helix I have I had to replace "push_selection" for "save_selection" for this to work.

# ~/.config/helix/config.toml
[keys.normal]
"%" = ["select_all", "save_selection"]

[thomasschafer]

I know this is a closed issue, but I find myself also wanting more movements to push to the jumplist, such as pretty much any commands prefixed with m or [/]. Would we consider adding a config option to widen the jump criteria in this way? The alternative seems to be to add a massive number of keymaps to my config which just add save_selection alongside the existing command, but I would imagine that sufficiently many people would prefer a widened criteria (more similar to that of Neovim) to make it a desirable feature to add.