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A post-modern modal text editor.

160 mentions on Hacker News by 117 people: 16 stories, 144 comments · first 2021-06-01 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …and which is probably more widely used already than 95% of the editors on that list ever were. [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
    comment by p-e-w · 2022-12-28 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
  2. …keys in non-text places? That was what I was referring in the second part of the comment. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2295#issuecomme...
    comment by doix · 2022-12-28 · in I have reached Vim nirvana
  3. …as convenient or easy, but the freedom is important. Anyway, with regards to Rust, I was using https://github.com/helix-editor/helix for a bit as an editor. I ran into an issue with keymapping that was pretty basic but still an involved…
    comment by survirtual · 2022-12-17 · in A first look at the new Gitlab Web IDE and remote development experience
  4. …a try! For keybinds, we do have a couple of guides: - `hx --tutor` is the equivalent to vimtutor - https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi... - Our Matrix chat is always happy to help with questions :)
    comment by archseer · 2022-12-07 · in Helix 22.12
  5. needs more newlines still, blocker for me https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/4274
    comment by transportheap · 2022-12-07 · in Helix 22.12
  6. …the implementation of a file tree view [1]. However, the contributor seems busy at the moment. [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/200
    comment by conaclos · 2022-12-07 · in Helix 22.12
  7. 1) there's a pull request that fixes this but needs a bit of polish ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1819 ) 3) There's also a discussion for this, we hoped to include it in this release but it's instead going to be in the next…
    comment by archseer · 2022-12-07 · in Helix 22.12
  8. …Helix will end up with "abcdefbc" as the final output. This is annoying. 2. The posted directions ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/External-binary-f... ) for configuring prettier didn't work, there are no error messages visible…
    comment by adamkf · 2022-12-07 · in Helix 22.12
  9. …are not way too dramatic but slightly annoying since many of those are very frequent actions - https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi...
    comment by kirillbobyrev · 2022-12-07 · in Helix 22.12
  10. There is a pending pull request partially addressing this: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4204 It would be nice to have a comprehensive and convincing explanation in the documentation which sheds lights at the advantages of…
    comment by pdobsan · 2022-12-01 · in A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
  11. helix, just switched from nvim :) it is very promising https://helix-editor.com/ https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
    comment by peschu · 2022-11-22 · in Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?
  12. In addition, the developer of Neovide proposed collaboration a while back: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/39
    comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2022-11-07 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  13. …precedence from other text editors) that I think folks interested in Helix might find interesting: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
    comment by robenkleene · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  14. …diff functionality to helix. You can check the current progress on the first related PR on github ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3890 ). The PR is pretty far along. A new gitoxide release is happening today and once that is…
    comment by pascalkuthe · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  15. …a hardcore, many years vim user. If you want a more vim like behavior you can play with my patches: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pulls/mitsuhiko
    comment by the_mitsuhiko · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  16. Waiting on this PR to get through: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2507 I write mostly in typescript, and being able to run eslint and tsserver is pretty important for my workflow. (I could just use this branch and build it from…
    comment by johnnypangs · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  17. …in its functionality IMO. For example, the "Migrating from Vim" guide mentions global replace ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi... ). This doesn't really go into how it looks, but what happens looks a lot more…
    comment by tomphoolery · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  18. …in Vim as an alias to ESC to exit insert mode, it looks like Helix is not too usable as of today: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2612 I would've considered exploring Helix myself if it wasn't for this.
    comment by aldanor · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor
  19. …one (always 1-width, always bar). If you want to change cursor shapes, there's a config option too https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/FAQ#change-cursor...
    comment by archseer · 2022-10-27 · in Coming Home to Vim (2010)
  20. Helix is not Vim. Helix cursor is bad and they refuse to fix it: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/3010
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-10-24 · in Coming Home to Vim (2010)
  21. …5. https://github.com/lapce/lapce/releases 6. https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/download.php 7. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases 8. https://github.com/zyedidia/micro 9. https://github.com/fox0430/moe/releases
    comment by ZoomZoomZoom · 2022-10-13 · in Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
  22. …like jEdit[7], but that's not my personal favourite. [1]: https://www.vim.org/download.php [2]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases [3]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ [4]: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ [5]:…
    comment by sandreas · 2022-10-13 · in Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
  23. …feature for me is a tree view of the project folder [1]. A contributor is working on that [2]. [1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/200 [2] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2377
    comment by conaclos · 2022-10-11 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  24. …https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor 4. https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus 5. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-10-11 · in New Patterns for Apps
  25. By the way... which font is being used in the readme screenshot? https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/screenshot...
    comment by phao · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  26. …has 1,258 open issues (7,496 closed)[2] - VSCode has 7,463 open issues (136,638 closed) [3] [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/issues [2] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues [3]…
    comment by tiffanyh · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  27. …or personal notes. The comments on the open issue in Github are not particularly encouraging. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/136
    comment by scblock · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  28. …type `ci"`; it would take me a long time with Helix to regain that level of fluency. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi...
    comment by MontyCarloHall · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  29. …everything with a grain of salt, you can create bad software in every programming language. [1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1967
    comment by davidkunz · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  30. …the effort to make it be like vim except with some syntax stuff I don't really need... no sale. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi...
    comment by darrenf · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  31. Really like the sane defaults with Helix, just waiting like many users for the copilot integration. ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1927 )
    comment by p2hari · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  32. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/FAQ#how-to-write-...
    comment by timokoesters · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  33. …features I like and I'm always choosing between them. Edit: Looks like there's an issue for tabs: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2295 , doesn't have too much traction. I hope someone picks it up, unfortunately my rust sucks…
    comment by doix · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  34. …There is a Helix issue (and poll, see last comment) requesting the same feature you could vote on: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1671
    comment by modernerd · 2022-10-09 · in Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
  35. …are very few other options at the moment. https://github.com/zed-industries/feedback/issues/388 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806
    comment by modernerd · 2022-09-30 · in Neovim 0.8 Released
  36. I'm looking forward to a treeview too! https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2377 And subsequent icon support: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2869 > I find it a bit weird to include VsCode and Helix here together. I work…
    comment by modernerd · 2022-09-30 · in Neovim 0.8 Released
  37. I also really like Helix. Looking forward to: - Reload of files changed on disk: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2653 - Autosave: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3178 - Git/SCM support:…
    comment by modernerd · 2022-09-30 · in Neovim 0.8 Released
  38. …to Helix, also written in Rust, is modal like Vim, has a built in LSP with sane defaults, etc? https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
    comment by cercatrova · 2022-09-04 · in Lapce Editor, Release v0.2.0
  39. …and the AST node is invalid until indentation is typed out. We do have a potential solution ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/763#issuecommen... ), it just needs someone to go and implement it. I don't consider tree-sitter…
    comment by archseer · 2022-07-01 · in Vim 9.0
  40. …to install system wide, if a shell.nix or flake.nix has been written for it. (e.g. for repos like https://github.com/helix-editor/helix ). You'll be able to use the `nix shell` command to try out a program without needing it installed…
    comment by rgoulter · 2022-05-30 · in A decade of dotfiles
  41. There's also Helix, a Vim/Kakoune-inspired text editor written in Rust: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
    comment by davidkunz · 2022-03-30 · in Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
  42. There's been some prototyping on easymotion type jumps: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1162
    comment by archseer · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor
  43. …inspired by both Vim and Kakoune, with built-in LSP support. I'm having a great time with it. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
    comment by Comevius · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor
  44. …page ( https://docs.helix-editor.com/ ), but it seems to be available on the releases ( https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases )
    comment by 0xcoffee · 2021-06-01 · in Helix: a post-modern modal text editor