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https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/12527

Author here. I listen to feedback, but it's hard to incorporate every possible requested feature without the codebase becoming an unmaintainable mess. We're a small team with limit…

Yet.

Splits are provided, tabs and terminals aren't. Diff mode is work in progress.

https://www.mpscholten.de/docker/2016/01/27/you-are-most-lik...

I think you're mistaken. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UAaky12REM for example.

Both ZSTD and LZ4 were built by the same author. They have slightly different target goals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23211804

There's also a dramatic video rendition by the author: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_lLm3a33WsE

Thanks for the kind words! Fixed the link :)

There's this config you might like: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim We can't invert the bindings though (wd -> dw) because that would require a big internal change to add opera…

A tree-sitter grammar is slightly more complex but it has a bunch of benefits! Syntax highlighting is more correct, faster and a bunch of smart features like indentation and foldin…

If the bindings were the same, then what's the point? We're not a "vim ported to rust", instead we got our own take on things. (from the vision doc: "Don't try to be everything for…

1) there's a pull request that fixes this but needs a bit of polish ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1819 ) 3) There's also a discussion for this, we hoped to include i…

Well it's similar in vim: if I press `d` accidentally and I don't notice, then any subsequent movement commands will start to modify the file. It's a bit more explicit in Helix sin…

Treating newlines as regular characters allows you to use them in motions: t will select text until end of the line for example.

That's probably because a lot of electron apps still run via Xwayland and you need to opt into ozone (chromium Wayland implementation)

I think you mean elastic tab stops https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

Maybe you need to update your homebrew cache? https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/helix

Does it matter? I used Rust to write it but I don't claim it's "blazingly fast". The post-modern tagline is a joke. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158035

We're planning to support multiple frontend too. The terminal one is just the main client.

> Helix cursor is bad and they refuse to fix it What? Our cursor matches the default vim one (always 1-width, always bar). If you want to change cursor shapes, there's a config opt…

We're working on snippets! It'll take a while longer to get there though.

Helix author here: I think the poster chose an unfortunate headline. 1) Helix was written to replace my neovim setup but is in fact kakoune inspired. 2) It's written in Rust but I …

> it kind of falls apart I'd like to point out that the editor is barely a year old and I'm working on it entirely during my free time. It takes time to sort out all the issues and…