LSP error message obscures my code.

[nathan-at-least]

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:

1. hx
2. Split the window vertically: C-W v
3. 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)

[nathan-at-least]

Ooh, while I did do a text search for this prior to filing an issue, I missed this feature in development that provides a UI that meets my needs well:

#6059 (comment)

[nathan-at-least]

Will close this ticket as noise and go voice support there. ;-)