Inconsistencies when selecting closest surrounding pair to cursor

[icholy]

Summary

The mam command seems broken.

Reproduction Steps

• mam has no effect here. I expected it to select the [ ... ] pair.

• mam has no effect here. I expected it to select the [ ... ] pair.

• mam selects the parent [ ... ] pair. I expected to select the { ... } pair.

• mam selects the { ... } pair. This seems correct.

Helix log

No response

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

alacritty 0.9.0

Helix Version

helix 22.05 (83f177d)

[archseer]

This is intentional, it's supposed to select the next outer pair? I think you're looking for vmm

[icholy]

@archseer then why does the last example not select the surrounding [ ... ] ?

[the-mikedavis]

Looks like there might be an off-by-one: mam on a closing pair surrounds that pair instead of the parent

[morlinbrot]

This is intentional, it's supposed to select the next outer pair? I think you're looking for vmm

Is it possible to discuss changing this default behaviour? At least to me, this feels very unintuitive. Sure, you can use vmm when on a pair but now I have to commit two different things to muscle memory, one for in, one for on the pair.

I think it would be more intutitive to make mim/mam always select, no matter if on opener, closer or inside the pair.