Tried resetting the tool, deleted preferences, restarted maya and all my normals seem to be facing the right direction.

It shows when I set the scale tool to normal axis, but not the move tool for some reason... I bit maddening honestly.

Can someone please let me know what I could try?

Thanks in advance

EDIT: obviously that after looking up for like 30min I would figure out 2 min after posting this question. I was trying to move edges but normal axis only works in vertex mode or something to that effect. I couldn't find a way to delete this post so mods please feel free to trash it.