History picker

[johalun]

Not critical but definitely a nice to have feature would be a "history picker". For example [space - h] opens up a history over past opened files, including from previous sessions of Helix. Alternatively, the file and buffer picker could include a section with previously opened files/buffers that are not currently open.

Thanks!

[the-mikedavis]

Depends #401

[adamkpickering]

I was considering making this a separate issue, but I'll write it here because it probably requires the same background functionality, plus a few keymaps.

I find myself using ga (goto_last_accessed_file) a lot. However, ga only lets you jump one step into your file access history: doing ga again puts you back at the original file. I had thought that doing gn and gp would give me this functionality, but the order is not what I need. I'm not sure how the ordering of buffers works, but it is clear that they are not ordered by most recently accessed.

What I want is two keymaps that are like gn and gp, but rather than navigating buffers, they navigate files in the order they were last accessed (most recently accessed first). FWIW I don't care about history persistence across runs of helix.

[the-mikedavis]

If you aren't already aware of this, you might be looking for the jumplist which is like a history stack: you can use C-o to jump backwards and C-i to jump forwards. Most LSP motions like gd or gr save spots to the jumplist and you can save spots manually with C-s in normal mode.

[adamkpickering]

Thanks @the-mikedavis. I use that a lot as well. But it's too fine-grained sometimes, hence the file access history stuff.