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Very nice to see a text editor that is very capable, yet still minimal and not focused on including a bunch of useless AI features.
> minimal https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6187
> It comes with no grammars installed and it's up to the user to install what they need ... and the grammars can be shared with other editors.
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It looks very interesting and I'd love to support it, but editors that must be modal are difficult for me to use, personally. Editors that are not modal can be made modal, but can modal editors be made non-modal?
I wouldn't want to go from modal to non-modal. In fact, I have a hard time editing in web browser textareas and Google Docs because of the muscle memory of vimlike keybindings and how I've associated them with tactile keyboards. (Smartphones and tablets don't give me this problem since they feel different, but laptop/desktop Google Docs editing throws me for a loop.) Once you learn, modal is the way to go. It feels l…
Congrats! I am happy for helix but i don't think it's a good fit for me. I use Neovim. It does what i want it to do. It's one of the best available options. But, i am not completely satisfied with it. I personally want an editor with following: * Modern codebase. Written from scratch. * VIM Keybindings: I have muscle memory of Vim. I would like to use Vim Keybindings in my editor. I don't want to use any other keybin…
Its not very clear to me which of these Helix hasnt hit. To me it looks like Helix is very close to what you are looking for.
And looking at the video it seems to be tui based. Nice. Gave me Emacs tui vibes.
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It looks very interesting and I'd love to support it, but editors that must be modal are difficult for me to use, personally. Editors that are not modal can be made modal, but can modal editors be made non-modal?
Have you ever used a modal editor? It takes the smallest bit of brain training to adapt, but feels more logical for long form coding. I spend a lot more time reading code than writing. Having more tools to grep/highlight/move text in one mode is quite productive.
Yep, that's precisely it.
Helix is great and includes a lot of stuff out of the box (file pickers, syntax highlighting, linting etc) without any configuration or installing plugins (contrary to vim or neovim). I would definitely use it but the main disadvantage is that some keybindings work differently than vim. I understand that the keybindings may be better that the vim ones but after years of using vim I expect "x" in normal mode to delete…
It means that it's possible to add vim support for Helix but they don't want to?
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And then you start craving modal interfaces in your browser, file manager, terminal, messenger... Some Google Docs markdown buffer as a modal editor feature (or a plugin) would be cool.
This, though I've always found the Chrome/Firefox vimlike browser plugins to be such second class citizens that they've never stuck with me. I used to use modal tiling window managers on Linux, but since window managers are always second class on Mac/Windows, that never stuck either. I bounce around too frequently for it to work. I just suffice with tmux for now. I was pleasantly surprised to find Discord's `s/search…
Helix is great and includes a lot of stuff out of the box (file pickers, syntax highlighting, linting etc) without any configuration or installing plugins (contrary to vim or neovim). I would definitely use it but the main disadvantage is that some keybindings work differently than vim. I understand that the keybindings may be better that the vim ones but after years of using vim I expect "x" in normal mode to delete…
Omg. Vim keybindings is the single blocker for me to try helix. It means that it's possible to add vim support for Helix but they don't want to?
Congrats! I am happy for helix but i don't think it's a good fit for me. I use Neovim. It does what i want it to do. It's one of the best available options. But, i am not completely satisfied with it. I personally want an editor with following: * Modern codebase. Written from scratch. * VIM Keybindings: I have muscle memory of Vim. I would like to use Vim Keybindings in my editor. I don't want to use any other keybin…
Its not very clear to me which of these Helix hasnt hit. To me it looks like Helix is very close to what you are looking for.