Behavior of x on an empty line

[dpc]

This was originally brought up in #356 , but I think that issue was too broad and thus unhelpful. I don't really care about line-modes, etc.

I only was and still am annoyed by the unpredictable behavior of x w.r.t to empty lines, so I've been rolling for almost 3 years now with a custom patch to change the behavior of x on an empty line. I just keep rebasing it on top of upstream and surprisingly I think I only had a merge conflict once all this time.

I wonder if I'm a tiny minority?

[kirawi]

Kakoune already swapped the behavior of their x and X commands. I think Pascal agreed with the decision but was against changing it in Helix because it would break people's muscle memory.

[dpc]

was against changing it in Helix because it would break people's muscle memory.

The whole point is that you can't have any muscle memory, if you have to pay attention to the content of lines when issuing commands... :D

Thanks for letting me know though.