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…the just command runner https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/Cargo.lock And the helix editor https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/Cargo.lock Compare them to the dependencies of gnu make (pretty sure it’s only posix)…

comment by skydhash · 2026-10-21 · in Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

…after you said that and noticed the lack of activity indeed, there's even a discussion about it: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/16261 That said, fwiw, I haven't felt the need for anything on it and it feels "complete" to…

comment by hmokiguess · 2026-10-18 · in Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

Commenting as an outsider to both projects, one possible motivation to fork Helix might be this PR: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675 Helix was originally meant to be a "batteries included" editor without any…

comment by evanjrowley · 2026-10-18 · in Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

…use that tool to improve code or the product, I could care less. I just find this interesting. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/15408

comment by nazgulsenpai · 2026-07-23 · in Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

…google drive, and I looked up how to install helix and you do have to download and unzip a file ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases ). Still, computer science degree not required! Unless you've only ever used android or iOS…

comment by backscratches · 2026-05-18 · in Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

…system is steadily approaching maturity and will probably be integrated and released soonish™ https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by ctenb · 2026-03-07 · in Helix: A post-modern text editor

…trust system like vscode, so LSPs can automatically execute code when you enter a directory https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/9514#issuecomme... So uninstalling VSCode would be a bit of a step back in that case

comment by __jonas · 2026-01-22 · in Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Here's one way to see. Look at closed PRs with "changes requested" reviews: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Ac...

comment by dcre · 2025-11-02 · in Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor

Not yet in release branch, afaik https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/401

comment by e12e · 2025-11-02 · in Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor

…Helix but just got hit by wq freeze issue, opened since 2022, so I wonder sometimes if its ready. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2059

comment by lexoj · 2025-11-01 · in Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor

…for the official docs and mostly rejected, and for good reasons IMO. An instructive discussion! https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/12127#issuecommen... It's rarely a good idea to do a bunch of work on a big change to an open source…

comment by dcre · 2025-11-01 · in Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor

…to the dap server (and that can't simply be in PATH)? How are everyone debugging with Helix? https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/9269

comment by e12e · 2025-10-29 · in From VS Code to Helix

…`jk`. Four years feels like a long time for such a basic bug. I will stick to NeoVim for now. 0. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2612

comment by nromiun · 2025-10-29 · in From VS Code to Helix

Plugins, coming to a release near you: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675#issuecomment... Or you could check out the branch where the plugin system and the community's plugins have been kicking around for a while now

comment by spartanatreyu · 2025-10-13 · in How I'm using Helix editor

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806

comment by mobilemidget · 2025-10-12 · in How I'm using Helix editor

Annoying, isn't it? I am running a trivial fork to change the `x` behavior on an empty line. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4847

comment by dpc_01234 · 2025-10-12 · in How I'm using Helix editor

Does not work on Linux. Also, double-clicking to expand selection like in Sublime does not work. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/10208

comment by klaussilveira · 2025-10-11 · in Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

…it in the selection before hitting =. Likely fix here, coming soon according to the last comment: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/11738

comment by dcre · 2025-10-10 · in Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

…essential to me and not implemented yet: - Code actions on save, for example adding Go imports: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/6486 - Fuzzy search with a filepicker like telescope+rg, seems to have been added earlier this year:…

comment by danslo · 2025-10-10 · in Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

Their cargo.lock file is 3500 lines or so: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/Cargo.lock So, I kind of agree with you, but that’s still a lot of dependencies baked into the editor. It’s probably not as bad as Neovim+plugins,…

comment by christophilus · 2025-10-10 · in Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

There's a fair bit of discussion about this here: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/4037 But the short answer is no. Not yet. I'm pretty happy just letting the standalone agent write to the file and then reloading it in my…

comment by __MatrixMan__ · 2025-08-06 · in Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

I don't know if this is still the case but they were leaning towards Steel. Relevant Github comment: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/10389 Steel: https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

comment by lemonberry · 2025-07-15 · in Helix Editor 25.07

> minimal https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6187

comment by 38 · 2025-07-15 · in Helix Editor 25.07

…health. And given the development since then, I am more confident that it’s a bad horse to bet on. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1840#issuecomme...

comment by jtrn · 2025-07-15 · in Helix Editor 25.07

…which is just very very non intuitive. I just wish there was option for behavior same as vim does. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2956

comment by u5wbxrc3 · 2025-06-04 · in Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today

I don't think `helix-editor` is even on crates.io, just placeholders. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/7038 That being said, when I saw `helix-db` I was thrown too. "What's a text editor doing writing a vector-graph…

comment by itishappy · 2025-05-13 · in Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

The bikeshedding has long past. They've been working on the implementation now for some time. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by eikenberry · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

…idea of thinking about considering of starting thinking about potentially adding copilot support. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/4037

comment by divan · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

…key. It's what I wish vim was. Shameless self-promotion of a discussion thread I started. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/13399

comment by drekipus · 2025-04-24 · in Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)

Likely soon: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675#issuecomment... My initial point was just that it's kind of nice to have something that's usable from the get-go. I don't miss my gigantic neovim config one bit.

comment by __MatrixMan__ · 2025-04-18 · in What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

…- Contribution to uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/11738 - Contribution to Helix Editor: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/9660 - Solutions to protohackers: https://github.com/nkitsaini/protohackers_impl You can find more…

comment by nkit · 2025-03-04 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

…to Helix, which is my daily notes editor, using the as-yet unlanded Scheme based plugin system (see https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675 )

comment by Communitivity · 2025-02-28 · in Calendar.txt

…going to implementing it's plugin system in a Scheme-like language. Helix is also written in Rust. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...

comment by markstos · 2025-02-18 · in Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust

> What open source alternatives? Helix: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/ Like vim, but already has an LSP etc out of the box. Things are already there so the config files are minimal.

comment by patrickkidger · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…in - Lox Language Interpreters: https://github.com/nkitsaini/lox - Contribution to Helix Editor: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/9660 - Solutions to protohackers: https://github.com/nkitsaini/protohackers_impl You can find more…

comment by nkit · 2025-02-07 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/12527

comment by archseer · 2025-01-25 · in File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

…[1]. It’s being considered to be used in Helix [2]. [1] https://github.com/mattwparas/steel [2] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by figomore · 2025-01-20 · in Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust

- https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/11677 - https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6752

comment by abound · 2025-01-17 · in Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

…also uses the rope data structure [1]), that's a more widely used editor also written in Rust. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/docs/archi...

comment by satvikpendem · 2025-01-15 · in Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

It seems like Helix is using it https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/docs/archi...

comment by cschmidt · 2025-01-15 · in Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

…diagnostics support. Helix will have SuperHTML enabled by default starting from the next release: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/11609

comment by kristoff_it · 2024-10-08 · in The Static Site Paradox

…idea! To summarize for those who know [Kakoune]( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ) or [Helix]( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix ), the idea is that every command has the form ["selection mode" -> "movement" -> "action"](…

comment by ilyagr · 2024-09-09 · in Show HN: Ki Editor – Multicursor syntactical editor

…The Yara project uses it for example, and the Helix editor uses it to search discontiguous strings: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/9422 (Instead of rolling your own regex engine, which is what I believe vim does.) This isn't…

comment by burntsushi · 2024-08-24 · in I sped up serde_json strings by 20%

…also encouraging people to consider donating elsewhere if they want to have a bigger impact. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2220

comment by barnabee · 2024-07-22 · in Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/CHANGELOG....

comment by frankjr · 2024-07-20 · in Helix 24.07

Configuration with scheme looks like it would be pretty similar. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/10441

comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2024-05-29 · in Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor

Thanks! I'll correct myself: lack of interactive global search, discussed here: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/196 Maybe it's kind of niche feature, but that's how I navigate my code, and that's what would work even greater…

comment by maxxk · 2024-05-27 · in Helix: A post-modern text editor

…be easy to add using the now work-in-progress plugin system. Scroll down to the Examples section. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by frankjr · 2024-05-27 · in Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor

For anyone interested, here is the issue about auto-reloading. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1125 Another example of a missing feature in high demand is the ability to pipe info about the current file (path, line number,…

comment by dcre · 2024-05-27 · in Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor

…needs large architectural changes before writing a GUI is even feasible/a good idea."[1]) [1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/39#issuecomment...

comment by dcre · 2024-05-27 · in Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor