<SPC>f vs. <SPC>F

[fominok]

Summary

Both claim to open a file picker but with the F version to open it "in current working directory", however, both do the same; shall they do something different?

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. Opened a file
2. Changed the working dir
3. Tried both <SPC>f and <SPC>F

I expected this to happen:

Any difference in behavior

Instead, this happened:

Both pickers showed me contents of the directory I did :cd to

Helix log

No response

Platform

GNU/Linux

Terminal Emulator

alacritty

Installation Method

pacman

Helix Version

24.7

[sicher]

<spc>f opens picker in the root, where you started helix.

[fominok]

<spc>f opens picker in the root, where you started helix.

I'm afraid it's not, with :cd both f and F show me the new dir contents

[the-mikedavis]

<space>F always opens in the current working directory while <space>f attempts to find your workspace root (ancestor directory with .git, .svn, .jj or .helix currently). For an example of where they are different, if you start helix in a subdirectory of a repository like docs/ in this repository, <space>f opens in the repository root while <space>F opens in docs/.

[fominok]

Thanks, now I can see the difference