Primary selection not visible

[jonmon6691]

Summary

While I was working through the tutor in section 10, I was not able to see which of the selections was the primary selection while cycling through them with the '(' and ')' keys.

I can see the numbers in the ruler on the button right updating, so I know it's working, but there's no visual feedback.

I am using the default theme and have no custom configuration in place.

Reproduction Steps

In normal mode, I made multiple disjoint selections by using the 's' command and searching for text in my current visual selection.

I then pressed the open paren key, '(' aka Shift+9 repeatedly.

I expected some sort of visual indication to cycle between each selection to indicate which was the primary selection. Maybe a change in hue/value or type weight.

What happened was that there was no change in the appearance of any of the selections.

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

[helix.log](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16812046/helix.log)

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

foot version: 1.18.1 +pgo +ime +graphemes -assertions

Installation Method

source

Helix Version

24.07-150-g1b5295a3

[jonmon6691]

After experimenting with this swapping through the included themes, it seems the maybe less than half have a usable amount of contrast for this feature.

Dracula has really good contrast for this feature:

I'd be interested in tinkering with this but I can't figure out where the default theme is stored. I don't see a default.toml in the runtime/themes/ folder. And find . -name "default.toml" didn't turn anything up in the source repo.

[kirawi]

duplicate of #3842