Actually change lines with J and K.

[fadri14]

Is there a way to add an option to force the line change?

Let me explain. When a line is too long to display on a single line, it displays on multiple lines.
Consequently, when we are for example at the start of the line and we press J, then the cursor actually goes down one line but in reality advances on the actual current line.

This poses a problem for users like me who use the relative line number to navigate.
For example, if there is a line displayed on two lines between my cursor and the place where I want to move and I type 5d then I will only go down 4 real lines and I will not be at the targeted location.

What are the possible solutions?
Thank you in advance for the response and also thank you for creating and maintaining Helix!

[m4rch3n1ng]

the j / k keybinds are bound to move_visual_line_(down/up) by derault, which has this behavior. you can change this by rebinding them to move_line_(down/up):

[keys.normal]
j = "move_line_down"
k = "move_line_up"

[keys.select]
j = "extend_line_down"
k = "extend_line_up"

you can alternatively also just use gj/gk, which is already bound to that.

[fadri14]

Thanks a lot for the help.
Sorry I didn't understand how this works on my own while searching the documentation.