Description
Summary
First off, helix is awesome! So glad to have this project. Keep up the excellent work, everyone!
I'm on a small laptop with vertical window splits, so I don't have very many columns. tput cols shows 194, so one vertical split cuts that in half, then there's a | column showing the separator, then each buffer has something like 6-10 columns for error indicators, line numbers, etc… so I estimate maybe 87 columns per buffer.
Here's what the display looks like in my editor right now:
The error message obscures my code, including the current cursor/selection.
Reproduction Steps
I tried this:
hx- Split the window vertically:
C-W v - Edit some code to introduce an LSP error.
I expected this to happen:
I'm not sure! Obscuring either the code or the error message is confusing/annoying.
The UI I personally would prefer is for all LSP errors to appear in a separate window at the bottom of the terminal, completely out of band for the code. The location of the error would be implicit in the selection/cursor, or perhaps the left line-based error indicator would have a special color/glyph to indicate which line this new LSP message widget applies to.
Another UI option might be to have a key combo to toggle between displaying or hiding the LSP error.
My personal preference would be for a combination of these: a dedicated widget at the bottom of the terminal that I can quickly pop open or hide, depending on my needs in the moment.
(And yes, perhaps a nicer UI is just a bigger screen, but I'm on this small form factor laptop because it's so convenient to take with me on trips.)
Instead, this happened:
The LSP messages are displayed right-justified within the same buffer view as source, so it ends up obscuring the source.
Helix log
This doesn't seem relevant. All of the behavior is as-designed AFAIK. LMK if log messages are important here.
Platform
linux (crostini within ChromeOS)
Terminal Emulator
hx inside tmux inside ChromeOS Termina
Helix Version
helix 23.03 (92c328c)