I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.
Emacs is under constant improvement and so are it’s many packages. Emacs looks like modern Emacs
Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#32I'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 tmu…
You need to enable true-color in your tmux config.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#33the true post-modern text editor is copilot (death of the author etc. etc.)
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Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#35I'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 tmu…
I recently got into neovim (from vscode) and it took me 1.5 weeks to get it to have similar functionality. I really like the vim commands though. What’s your opinion on that compared to helix?
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#36For 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.
Remap capslock to CTRL when held and ESC when tapped. Good idea for vim too
The classic mapping is Alt/Meta to send escape when tapped, because terminals send Alt-q as `ESC q`.
I have no strong opinions about how people lay out their keyboards, other than that people should try a split key if they haven't. My layout sends ESC when Alt is tapped, capslock is for backspace.
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#37Helix 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?
Say I am at the last line of a part of a function, that I would like to delete - maybe some debug output. In VIM, I will look at the relative line numbers and immediately see that I would like to delete up to the number 8. Then I simply write d8 or d8h, and I am done.
As far as I can tell - I may be wrong - in Helix, I would have to first do 8 and then 9xd. Note the number 9 in there. This is due to the fact that in Helix, I have to count the number of lines I want to delete, rather than just being able to look at the relative line numbers.
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#38Interesting 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). [1] https://docs.helix-editor.com/lang-support.html
Tree-sitter and LSP (language server protocol) are both global standards. If you support them then you automatically support any language that has a tree-sitter grammar or implements an LSP.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#39dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33147270
That is just "past discussion", not a dupe. A dupe suggests there's a competing conversation happening right now that may be splintering the discussion.
It's very much a dupe by HN's rules of dupery. It's just that saying 'dupe' went a somewhat out of style since it can come off a little aggro. 'Past discussion' is often just the polite way to point out a dupe.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#40dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33147270
That is just "past discussion", not a dupe. A dupe suggests there's a competing conversation happening right now that may be splintering the discussion.
Agreed, but on the other hand it's the 3rd time I'm seeing this posted and there's no new releases or anything.