Proposal: Collapses the complete selection into a single point

[luctius]

To me it is unintuitive that the collapse selection ';', shrinks all selections into a single point, but keeps the multiple selections. Therefore this proposal.

I understand that both might be desirable though and am willing to make this a separate command if so desired.

[archseer]

Yeah so it's two commands: ; collapses the cursors and space+space retains only the primary selection. That second one is a bit hard to discover, it's space in kakoune but we had to move it to fit the space mode. An idea is to maybe add this behavior to Esc in normal mode.

The combined function could be mapped somewhere, alt-; is already taken so maybe space+;? Would be the equivalent of <space><space>;.

[pickfire]

An idea is to maybe add this behavior to Esc in normal mode.

I was thinking about the same thing but not sure if that's possible.

I do think that we should keep them separate since both is different things, sometimes I use one, sometimes the other one, sometimes both.

[Cons-Cat]

Would it be reasonable for ; to collapse all selections as it does now / in Kakoune, and if all current selections are 1-width cursors then tapping it just removes all secondary cursors? So double tapping ; would always bring you into the "default" position of having a single 1-width cursor.

[luctius]

Yeah so it's two commands: ; collapses the cursors and space+space retains only the primary selection. That second one is a bit hard to discover, it's space in kakoune but we had to move it to fit the space mode. An idea is to maybe add this behavior to Esc in normal mode.

The combined function could be mapped somewhere, alt-; is already taken so maybe space+;? Would be the equivalent of <space><space>;.

Right, I figured there almost must have been, but I didn't find it after a quick search.

Would it be reasonable for ; to collapse all selections as it does now / in Kakoune, and if all current selections are 1-width cursors then tapping it just removes all secondary cursors? So double tapping ; would always bring you into the "default" position of having a single 1-width cursor.

I really like this suggestion. I will at-least make the chance, and we'll see where that goes.

[archseer]

We ended up remapping space space to ,. There was some concerns regarding merging the two keys so we're keeping them separate for now.