The best approach for "Can't save with no path set"

[vn971]

Hi dear Helix community! I'm very new to Helix and I'm experimenting with it. I have a question about the following workflow:

• I have launched helix without a file
• I've made some changes to the document
• I want to save ("write" in VIM terminology) and I do :write

At this point, it would be helpful for me as a newb user to see a file picker dialog. Instead, I get an error message and that's it. I do understand that opening a file picker is not very far from issuing a write command in the first place. However, is there a file picker at all in Helix? Is there a command in Helix that would try to just "save" the current file, but if it's a new one, open the file picker dialog?

Overall, what are my possible options at this point?

[kirawi]

space-f will bring up a fuzzy file picker. On master, there is also #11285 There isn't a command to open a file picker dialogue and then write. :write <path_name> btw if you missed that

[vn971]

@kirawi Thanks a lot for the response!

From what I understand, there's no way to have the intended workflow then. E.g. space-f from Normal mode will open a file picker, but only for already existing files, and there's no "programming" on top to e.g. assign the file to a variable and be able to use it later.

Overall, from what I understand from the documentation, Helix at its current stage tries to rather be helpful and vim-like out-of-the-box, rather than pushing hard to let the user configuring their environment extensively. Simply put, there's no programming in the configuration files

(That's at least my impression. I'm writing it down to verbalize what I understood.)