Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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#3It's a delight to use it, opens in a few milliseconds, has everything I need, you can't and don't need to configure it much. It just works. No distractions.
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#4Read the docs, I must say I like what I see. Seems focused, minimalistic and using existing technology well. Will give it a try!
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#5I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
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#6I'm a huge fan of Helix, use it everyday. LSP works out of the box(if you install it with a package manager, otherwise you need to do a bit of config) .My configuration file has 5 lines or so, great defaults. No need for overly complicated configuration, or installing dozens of plugins, etc.. Did I mentioned is crazy fast? Opens in ms, and everything feels very snappy. The only thing I noticed, when I use it with tmux, the colorscheme get reverted, dunno if that is a tmux issue or not. But in general, great editor, thanks to the authors.
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#7Interesting language support [1]. I might try it for some of my Python/Node projects (though it's hard to see a Python IDE that better than PyCharm).
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#8I gave this a couple of tries but my vim muscle memory is actively hurting me the longer I try... I would love if this had a - at least somewhat closer to - vim-mode, because all the rest, LSP, startup speed, etc, is excellent.
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#9I love helix. It’s my daily driver at work (python) with occasional hops over to VS Code for a graphical debugger. Would love if anyone has tips for getting the python DAP working in Helix, though.
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#10One thing I really liked about it was the UI experience where as soon as you typed the first character of some sequence it started showing you all the other option starting with the same character. (Try pressing space or Ctr-w in Normal mode)
It made the whole thing far more explorable and I really thought it was a good experience although clearly not yet on par with something as fully mature as vim (but also with far less technical baggage).
The first thing I did on my vim setup was installing an extension which gave me very similar command completions.