Keep cursor position after hsplit/vsplit

[rcorre]

When I run hsplit/vsplit, helix moves the cursor to the first line in the new split.
Is there any way to have newly opened splits maintain the cursor position of the original split?
Sometimes I open a split so I can goto_definition on the word under the cursor, but I lose the position when I split.

[the-mikedavis]

You can use <C-w>v (vsplit command) for vertical splits and <C-w>s (hsplit command) for regular splits and they will copy the cursor location to the newly split buffer

[rcorre]

Thanks! Is it intentional that vsplit and :vsplit behave differently?

[the-mikedavis]

I'm not sure about the history of it but I believe that :vsplit is meant to act like :open and splitting the current buffer is a sort of fallback behavior when a filename is not also provided (like :vsplit path/to/my/other/file.txt). It would probably be fine to copy the selection in :vsplit/:hsplit though IMO