How to avoid selecting the first character of the current line?

[tavianator]

In Emacs as well as most GUI text editors (e.g. the textbox I'm now typing in), if I select multiple lines with Shift+↓, the cursor will be at the beginning of the line, but not including the first character of that line. In Helix though, if I select a few lines with v, ↓, ↓, ..., the cursor will be on the beginning of a line including the first character. Then if I delete the selection with d (for example), it also eats the first character of that line. As an example, I'll select some code inside a #ifdef region like this

#ifdef FOO
    int foo = 42;
    return foo;
#endif

and delete it, resulting in

#ifdef FOO
endif

and then I have to re-type the #.

Is there a way to make the selection not include the character the cursor is directly on, to match other editors?