I want to love helix, but the transition from vim is too great with very few resources that explain how something that would be done in vim could be done in helix.
Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
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Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#92Started using helix as my $EDITOR a few weeks ago and so far I love it. Especially 'hx --health' and its built-in ability to use many language LSP's. My helix config file is literally 3 lines long, and with that I get full language support. theme = "autumn" [editor] rulers = [80, 120]
I liked autumn so much I copied it in IntelliJ and VS Code.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#93Helix supporters often cite the object-action paradigm as preferable to vi's action-object. I find this argument moot: you can work in object-action fashion in vi as well if you remember to begin your sequence with 'v' (possibly at the small cost of an additional keypress in some cases).
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#94I'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?
I've switched to helix, from neovim and I can say that I like the commands much more. It feels like they took vim commands and made them much more consistent. Plus the UX is so good, lsp out of the box and all. In neovim I always feelt like my config was missing something but helix feels good without even touching the config. Much recommended.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#95I want to love helix, but the transition from vim is too great with very few resources that explain how something that would be done in vim could be done in helix.
I use vim a lot. Here are my first impressions about Helix:
- It loads noticeably slower than vim on my old laptop. (Vim being immediate, Helix taking about 3 seconds).
- The default theme is purple, which I'm not a fan of.
- It's more "put together" than vim out of the box. I wish vim had a bunch of plugins installed out of the box.
- I get some vim shortcuts but not all, which I immediately miss. I guess I'll have to read the docs.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#96You can pull vim from my cold, dead hands.
use what you like /shrug
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#97Helix 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.
We're planning to support multiple frontend too. The terminal one is just the main client.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remap capslock to CTRL when held and ESC when tapped. Good idea for vim too
Looks interesting. I've always remapped capslock to CTRL myself, of course, but haven't thought of remapping tap-capslock to ESC. It looks like you need external software to do this though (like Karabiner Elements on mac, or xcape on linux, etc). (That being said, if you're used to jk/kj/fd/jj/jf, many years of muscle memory would still take a while to erase...)
For Ubuntu/LinuxMint :
Ubunutu --> Gnome Tweaks --> Additional Layout options --> Make Caps Lock an additional ESC
Linux Mint --> Keyboard --> Layout --> Options --> Same
From the terminal : setxkbmap -option caps:escape
There are option to swap CapsLock and Escape too, or you can have CapsLock when pressing both shift keys and other worthwhile options
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#99Helix 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.
This looks really cool, but I hope they go for the kakoune style commands like helix.
Re: Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
#100How do you list buffer like :ls in Vim? I might have missed this someplace.