Tabout doesn't work. Is it intended?

[txtyash]

Helix does auto-pairs by default but to move out of the pair I have to press the closing '")]} part of the pair which makes auto-pairs pointless and rather annoying. To tackle this issue editors like vs-code have tabout feature where you hit the tab key to move out of a pair whereas neovim has a plugin called tabout.nvim for this.

I tested tabout but doesn't seem to work in helix.

[CBenoit]

I didn't know about this. Looks interesting!

[dead10ck]

This is the first I've heard of this, and it is a very interesting idea. Judging by the demo animations in tabout.nvim, it looks like this could be even further generalized to a command that moves the cursor to the next end of a syntax node range. It could literally just walk the syntax tree. If the cursor is in the middle of a node, move it to the end; if at the end of a syntax node, move it to the next node's beginning, etc. And also one that moves backward.

[kirawi]

Is it different from #956?

[dead10ck]

I think so. From what I'm gathering, the proposed feature is to move only forward or backward, whereas mm bounces bounces back and forth inside the same pair.

[txtyash]

Tabout actually takes you out of '' or "" or () ... in insert mode. For
example if you want to write print("something"); then in simpler steps:

• First you write print
• Then you write ( which get auto-paired to ()
• Now your current state is print(|)(| represents cursor position)
• You write ": print("|")(| represents cursor position)
• Now you type something: print("something|")(| represents cursor position)
• Notice that you are in insert mode, at the end of something and you have to
  move beyond "). Here you can either get into normal mode, go to the end, get
  in insert mode and type ; to complete the task or you can type ") which will take you to the end so you can type ; to complete the task.
• Instead of the two ways given above you can just press tab twice at
  print("something|")(| represents cursor position) to move to the end
  print("something")|, still in insert mode to type ; and complete the task.

[txtyash]

Is it different from #956?

yes