File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by manusachi » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 12:28 AM UTC

File Explorer is merged to Helix editor
github.com

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by manusachi » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 12:28 AM UTC

One of the long-awaited features was recently merged!

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by timeon » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 12:33 AM UTC

I get that Helix is really fast (I also use it sometimes) but some of those screen-grabs could be made bit slower so one could see what is actually happening.

Anyway I hope this will be soon included in release! (Even if current +f is also pretty good.)

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by contingencies » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 1:55 AM UTC

... but can it read emails?

Jamie Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by pkulak » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 3:06 AM UTC

I was waiting for this to try switching… and now I’ve discovered oil.nvim and can never go back.

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by abhinavk » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 3:07 AM UTC

timeon wrote: post #3

I get that Helix is really fast (I also use it sometimes) but some of those screen-grabs could be made bit slower so one could see what is actually happening. Anyway I hope this will be soon included in release! (Even if current +f is also pretty good.)

These are HTML controls. You can right-click and set a speed.

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by Celeo » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 3:37 AM UTC

Great news! When I'm familiar with the project space+F works great, but isn't great for discovery.

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by chamomeal » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 4:44 AM UTC

contingencies wrote: post #4

... but can it read emails? Jamie Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

They’re working on a scheme-based plugin system, so… almost!

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by jll29 » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

I like the idea of doing browsing in folders containing files as navigating between edit buffers.

I've been editing like that since the 1990s because that's how Emacs and XEmacs do it (M-x dired command). The ease and speed of just pressing RETURN on the .. menu to go up or on the folder name to open and look inside is unrivalled and much faster than using my mouse (and better for health - avoids RSI).

Would be cool for Helix to get Emacs-like directories-as-edit-buffers functionality!

Re: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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Post by georgeck » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 6:16 AM UTC

timeon wrote: post #3

I get that Helix is really fast (I also use it sometimes) but some of those screen-grabs could be made bit slower so one could see what is actually happening. Anyway I hope this will be soon included in release! (Even if current +f is also pretty good.)

I agree. Capturing the interaction as a movie (like .mov file) makes it really difficult to understand what the user is doing. e.g. What keystrokes did the user press to finish this interaction. I wish folks would post screen grabs with tools like https://asciinema.org/ - this is what the helix-editor homepage uses to show the features. This is ideal for terminal apps.

That said, I wish asciinema can also show the key strokes a an annotation with the ability for the viewer to pause on each keyboard interaction.