Anyone else read the title as "post-mortem text editor"?
Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#62I'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.
e: Huh, didn't even modify my tmux config and it worked on a restart of the terminal.
Do you have any more information? Having a bit of difficulty figuring this out, found this for neovim [0] but doesn't seem to be working for me.
[0]: https://jdhao.github.io/2018/10/19/tmux_nvim_true_color/
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#63I'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?
Helix just has better out of the box experience. Will take you like 5 minutes to setup instead of 1.5 weeks. It is just so much easier to start a model editor if you havent used one before.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#64Long-time Vim/NeoVim user here...about 20 or so years with it being my daily driver for the last 8. As soon as I found Helix, I was unsure whether it would become my new editor, but I've been using it every day for a few months and haven't really looked back. The only thing I still use Vim for is `vimdiff` with Git, but I don't think I need to, just been lazy about configuring Helix to do the same thing. Helix does e…
Is lua considered an esoteric language?
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#65Other than Kakoune, is there anything else in this vein? Preferably not written in Rust?
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#66Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#67Helix is cool if you want a terminal editor.
For a GUI editor, I am very interested in https://lapce.dev/
It is perhaps the only editor which for me seems as snappy as Sublime Text.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#68Other than Kakoune, is there anything else in this vein? Preferably not written in Rust?
"Not written in Rust"? Is Rust at that level on the hype-curve by now? :-D
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#69Other than Kakoune, is there anything else in this vein? Preferably not written in Rust?
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#70Other than Kakoune, is there anything else in this vein? Preferably not written in Rust?
"Not written in Rust"? Is Rust at that level on the hype-curve by now? :-D
It's just notably bad for beginners, and getting worse all the time. I've been in software for over three decades and I haven't seen the obsession this bad since Java, which has apparently come a long way towards UX, and also didn't ever put out new BS every six weeks that I can recall. Rust on the other hand, is an absolute nightmare for beginners. I've spent a lot of time throughout my career working with non-programming-inclined math and *-int people, and I've already seen one outfit crash and burn from trying to deal with it's complexity rather than just using Python/R/Matlab, because "safety" or because "performance" or whatever else somebody lied and told them.
This shouldn't become a Rust-bashing thread, I'm just genuinely curious if there's lesser-known "post-modern" text editors. It's crazy to think how many thousands of days I've accumulated in gedit... For how much we spend our time in editors, it still feels so primitive just typing things in a few bytes at a time and compiling, etc etc. Back in the early 2000s, I thought we were getting close to just Star-Trekking it, but alas. I have to read about whatever the shit a devcontainer is... to edit text...