Scroll jank

[yhbsh]

Summary

When scrolling up/down using j/k, a weird scroll jank is noticed.

I am not sure if this is a problem with Alacritty or helix or apple metal itself, but i only noticed the problem when using helix.

bug.mov

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

Just open any large codebase and start scrolling down using j

I expected this to happen:
Smooth scrolling

Instead, this happened:
Weird things

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

2024-02-28T14:53:00.104 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : ( main ): Starting ZLS 0.11.0 @ '/Users/home/thirdparty/bin/zls'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.104 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : ( main ): No config file zls.json found.\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.104 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Using zig executable '/Users/home/.zvm/bin/zig'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.225 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Using zig lib path '/Users/home/.zvm/0.11.0/lib'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.225 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Using build runner global cache path '/Users/home/.cache/zig'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.225 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Detected runtime zig version: '0.11.0'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.226 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (server): client is 'helix-23.10 (f6021dd0)'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.226 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (server): zls initializing\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.226 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (server): Server.ClientCapabilities{ .supports_snippets = true, .supports_apply_edits = true, .supports_will_save = false, .supports_will_save_wait_until = false, .supports_publish_diagnostics = true, .supports_code_action_fixall = false, .hover_supports_md = true, .completion_doc_supports_md = false, .label_details_support = false, .supports_configuration = true, .supports_workspace_did_change_configuration_dynamic_registration = false, .supports_textDocument_definition_linkSupport = false }\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.226 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (server): Using offset encoding: utf-8\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.246 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (server): Setting configuration...\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.246 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Using zig executable '/Users/home/.zvm/bin/zig'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.259 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Using zig lib path '/Users/home/.zvm/0.11.0/lib'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.259 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Using build runner global cache path '/Users/home/.cache/zig'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:00.259 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err <- "info : (config): Detected runtime zig version: '0.11.0'\n"
2024-02-28T14:53:25.309 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] zls err: <- StreamClosed
2024-02-28T14:53:25.309 helix_lsp::transport [ERROR] err: <- Other(failed to send a message to server

Caused by:
    channel closed)

Platform

macOS

Terminal Emulator

Alacritty

Installation Method

brew

Helix Version

helix 23.10 (f6021dd)

[pascalkuthe]

Weird things

I don't see anything wrong in the recording. Be more speicifc

[David-Else]

Perhaps related to #731 (comment)

[kirawi]

Closed as inactive