buffer close but quit on last buffer

[ghost]

I mapped
q = ":buffer-close"
Q = ":buffer-close!"
but when i am pressing q while it is on last buffer, helix is creating a new scratch buffer removing the original one

[woojiq]

I think this is a useless improvement as there are other commands like qa for your purposes. Imagine that you are writing something in a editor with gui (for example, vscode). If you want to exit completely, you press the top X button and do not close all open files one by one. Same thing: quit-all is your GUI X button and buffer-close is the X next to the file name. You do not close the program, if you have closed all the files, the welcome screen just opens.

Also, if it was the last buffer and you didn't notice, you can simply open another file and the lsp will continue to work. However with your suggestion, you will have to wait tens of seconds again to wait the lsp.

[ghost]

Yeah I know, there is quit-all command but typing out commands is slow and boring
I use z for write and q for quit if I used the mannual way I would have used esc : w q ret and a sometimes to quit all

[peterjc]

Useless to you maybe.

In many multiple window editors/browsers etc where if you close the last window with it's "X" corner icon (or Command+W), the entire application does close. In this paradigm there is no container window with an "X" corner icon for quit-all (although there will typically be a menu or Command+Q for that functionality).

With this suggestion (something like buffer-close-and-quit-if-no-more-buffers) I can close one or more buffers by repeating the same keybinding (like repeatedly using Comman+W to close tabs/windows/panes), and on the last one this will quit back to the terminal. I can then run something else, and maybe reload Helix later as needed.

With the current setup, after closing all the buffers gradually (taking time to review as needed), I have to switch to calling the quit shortcut, which is annoying for me.

[gabydd]

The above explains why this is the intended behaviour well, I will convert this to discussion so you can discuss alternatives but I don't think we want to change the behaviour of buffer-close, those commands are for managing open buffers changing it shouldn't quit the editor that's better left for other commands

[ghost]

I am not saying to change the behaviour of buffer-close, just add another command like buffer-close-and-quit and also same for force quit buffer-close-and-quit!. It will work very similar to less command if you map buffer-close-and-quit to q

[Cloudef]

I'd love to have this too. Just recently moved to hx from vim/neovim and even on there having this feature cleanly is annoying (but doable).

[EnzoMoser]

Here is the nvim plugin implementation:

https://github.com/psjay/buffer-closer.nvim

demo.mp4

Personally, I think having a command that exits on the last buffer makes sense. It falls in line with exiting when closing the last window.

[Cloudef]

Fyi I made PR for this feature here #15311