Multiple Cursors Tutorial

[VasilyFomin]

Reproduction steps

Launch helix tutorial:

hx --tutor

Environment

• Platform: macOS
• Terminal emulator: iTerm
• Helix version: latest from Homebrew

Tutorial says:

Type C to duplicate the cursor
Type , to remove the second cursor

Pressing , deletes the first cursor, actually it deletes all of cursors, except for the last one. Not sure what should be the proper behavior here (probably remove all cursors, except the first one), but if I do x and then s to select multiple words on the line pressing , removes all cursors except the first one.

[Omnikar]

Removing all extra cursors is the intended behaviour of ,. Which cursors get removed and which remains is determined by which of your cursors is the "primary" cursor. Some of the default themes come with theming for the primary cursor that's different from the rest of the cursors so that you can actually see which is the primary cursor, but not all the themes do. You can add your own colour for the primary cursor/its selection by adding colours for ui.cursor.primary and/or ui.selection.primary in your theme file.