diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0643127..27a0166 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bitflags 2.11.1",
  "crossterm",
- "hjkl-buffer",
+ "hjkl-buffer 0.27.0",
  "hjkl-engine",
  "serde",
  "thiserror 2.0.18",
@@ -2025,15 +2025,25 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "hjkl-buffer"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.6.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "22a56e4162c8cc2d4b040c7be2c21e4b09b0d3c09c731d750c873d88bfd0a3a0"
+checksum = "fc015974706a0895c46e5223a9bbef4b027445ec9c135072da9173b617971bfb"
 dependencies = [
  "ratatui",
  "regex",
  "unicode-width",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hjkl-buffer"
+version = "0.27.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b6f39bd4f27ce30bbf4fd8f6fe9ae279e361667d6bfece7f484007d09c5d8215"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hjkl-clipboard"
 version = "0.25.0"
@@ -2066,7 +2076,7 @@ checksum = "868b451122b7ba8c6d30e504e9cfc9a2dd1e175ca36c781c1277701bf65e19e8"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.11.1",
  "crossterm",
- "hjkl-buffer",
+ "hjkl-buffer 0.6.2",
  "ratatui",
  "regex",
  "serde",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4180eb5..673c8e4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ buffr-view-source = { path = "crates/buffr-view-source" }
 # at their latest majors — patch bumps roll in automatically; major-bump
 # breakage is gated by the leading-zero version.
 hjkl-engine = "0.5"
-hjkl-buffer = "0.6"
+hjkl-buffer = "0.27"
 hjkl-clipboard = "0.25"
 hjkl-splash = "0.2"
 hjkl-config = "0.25"