I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
To be fair it is far closer to a modern vim (modal and with a lot of similar mappings), which also gives it quite a bit of competition.
Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#12One 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 fa…
> The first thing I did on my vim setup was installing an extension which gave me very similar command completions.
How did you do that? Were you also able to replicate the small popups that open when you press `m`, `g`, etc.?
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#13One 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 fa…
> The first thing I did on my vim setup was installing an extension which gave me very similar command completions. How did you do that? Were you also able to replicate the small popups that open when you press `m`, `g`, etc.?
Just an extension.
It is https://github.com/liuchengxu/vim-which-key if you are interested.
>Were you also able to replicate the small popups that open when you press `m`, `g`, etc.?
Yes, although 'm' has a totally different meaning in vim (placing a mark), so there is no popup for that. But it works where there are actually sensible choices, even for marks it works and shows you every available one, which is pretty cool
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#14I 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.
I think there is a config that maps more to vim, try this https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim/raw/master/config.toml
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#15I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
Look at Nicolas Rougier’s GitHub if you want to see what a “modern” Emacs looks like.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#16I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
Define "modern".
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#17Helix is really great. If only it had a VIM (or VIM-like) mode available. I find the Kanoune shortcuts really limiting, as they fail to use the relative line numbers for anything except moving the cursor. Bidirectional selection, deletion, commenting, etc. is super useful when coding.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#18I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
Look at Nicolas Rougier’s GitHub if you want to see what a “modern” Emacs looks like.
I assume you mean https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs#readme
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#19Helix is really great. If only it had a VIM (or VIM-like) mode available. I find the Kanoune shortcuts really limiting, as they fail to use the relative line numbers for anything except moving the cursor. Bidirectional selection, deletion, commenting, etc. is super useful when coding.
Could you give an example of an edit you couldn’t express?
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#20For anyone who's used to fd/jk/kj/jj/jf or the like in Vim as an alias to ESC to exit insert mode, it looks like Helix is not too usable as of today: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2612
I would've considered exploring Helix myself if it wasn't for this.