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> jump They added jumps about 6 months ago: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8875 I haven't experienced data loss, but I agree that's a blocker for regular use.

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

…losing my unsaved changes after 24.03 update, most recently yesterday. Looks related to this bug: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/3501 I can live with no global search, but not with data loss. Probably will stop using it for…

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

…differentiate between the primary and secondary selections. It turns out that's still the case: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/3842 As a former Kakoune user it's hard to imagine using multiple selections effectively without…

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

…sophisticated programs which declare packages outside of nixpkgs, such as helix or llamacpp. helix: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/flake.nix llama: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/flake.nix > yet at…

comment by rgoulter · 2024-05-07 · in Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager

…spec to be finalised last time I had a look. edit: looks like the plugin work is being done here https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by boomskats · 2024-03-30 · in Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights

…the day (it's too bright in the evening), which highlights just comments, strings, and errors. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Themes#acme

comment by jiripospisil · 2024-03-13 · in :syntax off (2016)

You can use a snippet LSP to work around Helix not having a built-in LSP manager. They're listed in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/395

comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2024-02-20 · in Lapce

…is just better, for a lot of reasons. Helix has been looking for a GUI solution for a while now. ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/39 ) I wonder if Lapce's UI toolkit would be a good fit.

comment by infogulch · 2024-02-19 · in Lapce

…api might be fun, but perhaps not very practical. Edit: link to relevant issues and discussion: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu... https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/122…

comment by e12e · 2024-02-18 · in Lapce

Wow, that's been there a while: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/35c974c9c49f912... Wonder how I missed that. I'm getting a re-education in helix today -- thank you! I'll go through `hx --tutor` again before I insert any more…

comment by n8henrie · 2024-02-02 · in Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

Hm, i wasn't much of a user of visual mode in vim. Seems something like gv is coming to helix: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1596 What does g; do? Helix has (experimental?) macro record/playback q/Q?…

comment by e12e · 2024-02-01 · in Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

Oh, neat: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/39#issue-908964... Looks like a Neovide author wants to abstract Neovide to support other editors! Imagine that's a big lift, though.

comment by unshavedyak · 2024-02-01 · in Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

…and ecosystem growth. Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1] [1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...

comment by norskeld · 2024-01-25 · in Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

Helix doesn't have a plugin system: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/122

comment by srid · 2024-01-25 · in Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

…but it's open source and Rust too! It also comes with rust-analyzer and tree-sitter included. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

comment by itishappy · 2024-01-25 · in Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2024-01-16 · in Modeless Vim

…with how big wasm implementations are, easily several orders of magnitude compared to the editor https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/FAQ#how-to-write-... So they're not avoiding making it extensible on purpose, seems they haven't…

comment by diggan · 2024-01-16 · in Modeless Vim

…and it necessitated adding more C code to Helix which could complicate building even further. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...

comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2023-12-04 · in Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect

Helix Editor plans to use Steel as a plugin language [0]. [0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by _nalply · 2023-12-03 · in Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect

…be the extension langauge, then we get the best of both world. Modal editing and scheme =) PR 8675: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675

comment by cloudhan · 2023-11-17 · in Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs

…Interesting read and caused by one of the unsafe+transmute the sibling comment is talking about. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7227

comment by jiripospisil · 2023-11-09 · in Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

See https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1970 but yeah, other editors do the same thing as Helix here.

comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2023-10-25 · in Helix 23.10 Highlights

There is a tasty looking proposal for a debugger overhaul https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/5950 .

comment by prudentpomelo · 2023-10-25 · in Helix 23.10 Highlights

…work without a file tree, I settled with the tree explorer fork[1] and I'm happy with it. [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768

comment by dmagyari · 2023-10-25 · in Helix 23.10 Highlights

Release size is ridiculous, and they refuse to do anything about it https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6187

comment by 38 · 2023-10-25 · in Helix 23.10 Highlights

…telescope in the nvim world. I was a bit sad to hear that is now blocked by plugins being added: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768#issuecomment...

comment by marcyb5st · 2023-10-25 · in Helix 23.10 Highlights

…but folks are working on it. https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/425#issuecomment-1... https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/211#issuecomment-...

comment by celeritascelery · 2023-10-10 · in Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes

…explanations why should I spend time learning Helix keymap. [1]: https://github.com/mawww/golf [2]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/165

comment by TeddyDD · 2023-09-21 · in Why Kakoune

…keybindings. Like you, my muscle memory is very strongly in the Vim camp, and is hard to change :) https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

comment by eminence32 · 2023-09-15 · in The Evolution of Vi and Vim

Seems like they created it for the helix editor https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7814

comment by SushiHippie · 2023-08-11 · in A fast and convenient fuzzy matcher library for rust

this is basically why I moved to https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/ for most things. neovim setup is a nightmare these days. 0.5 introducing Lua was both great (yay! vimscript sucks!) and horrible (oh no, everyone took this power and…

comment by klardotsh · 2023-07-17 · in LazyVim

Closing the loop, this is now implemented and on main, thanks to msdrigg: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7429

comment by heliostatic · 2023-06-23 · in Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

…It allows you to do things like |kak|firefox|kak| with both kak instances sharing information. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2295#issuecomme...

comment by doix · 2023-06-22 · in Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

…AI-assistance should be plugins, as there's no open spec for communication with Copilot and others: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/4037#discu... And the plugin system is not done/released yet.

comment by vulcan01 · 2023-06-22 · in Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

…for labels.) I checked the source code to figure out what the heck was going on, and I found this: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/207829eefee51095d... Pretty often, my projects have weirdly specific needs like this. I think…

comment by dansalvato · 2023-06-22 · in Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

…might be able to support such a concept, but I get the impression Helix really wouldn’t), &c. Wow, https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/405 , indeed no side-by-side diffing and the approach being suggested would be hopelessly…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-06-22 · in Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

…that they haven't implemented yet is easymotion jumps, and there's an MR for that already [0]. [0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3791

comment by bccdee · 2023-06-22 · in Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

…I don't have any need for plugins, as everything I personally need is already in there. [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-th...

comment by jonas-w · 2023-04-07 · in Neovim 0.9

…--tutor` and if you're wondering why LSP is not working, check out the output of `hx --health` and https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-th... . Oh and you can search though all available commands with space+?.

comment by jiripospisil · 2023-03-31 · in Helix 23.03

…snippets but at this day and age, I would have thought we would get our long time request fixed. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1927

comment by p2hari · 2023-03-31 · in Helix 23.03

…switch between collections of windows. Here's a better explanation written by someone else[0] [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2295#issuecomme...

comment by doix · 2023-03-14 · in AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich Neovim config

…ah, thanks search engine then arch wiki then https://docs.helix-editor.com/languages.html then https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-th...

comment by johnchristopher · 2023-03-13 · in AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich Neovim config

…Helix for most of programming. Check out Btop or erdtree as well. https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/helix-editor/helix https://github.com/aristocratos/btop https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtree

comment by jiripospisil · 2023-02-27 · in Ask HN: macOS apps/utils you can’t live without?

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/docs/visio...

comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2023-02-25 · in Learn Vim (2021)

They're actively discussing/working on it: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806

comment by extr · 2023-02-25 · in Learn Vim (2021)

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix is the answer mate

comment by jalino23 · 2023-02-25 · in Learn Vim (2021)

…vim "distributions" and it works out of the box with the installed LSP servers on your system. [0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

comment by jzelinskie · 2023-02-24 · in Learn Vim (2021)

…as RPC latency is in cloud systems. I have no experience with rust, but I do depend on helix daily: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix and helix is rust. I think this kind of open source experiment is exactly what we should be…

comment by davidthewatson · 2023-01-31 · in Rewrite it in Rust

…with git such as Cargo[1] or Helix[2]. [1]: https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/issues/106 [2]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3890

comment by davidkunz · 2023-01-24 · in The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer

Also checkout Helix for those who want Vim with nice defaults (like LSP). https://helix-editor.com https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

comment by threatofrain · 2022-12-28 · in GNU nano is my editor of choice (2021)