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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. …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
  4. 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,…
  5. …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...
  6. > 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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. …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…
  10. …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
  11. …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)
  12. 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
  13. …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
  14. …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
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    story by tosh · 2024-02-18 · 0 comments
  16. 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…
  17. 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?…
  18. 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.
  19. …and ecosystem growth. Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1] [1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
  20. Helix doesn't have a plugin system: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/122
  21. …but it's open source and Rust too! It also comes with rust-analyzer and tree-sitter included. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
  22. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675
    comment by bobbyskelton41 · 2024-01-16 · in Modeless Vim
  23. …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
  24. …and it necessitated adding more C code to Helix which could complicate building even further. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
  25. Helix Editor plans to use Steel as a plugin language [0]. [0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675
  26. …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
  27. …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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. …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
  31. 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
  32. …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
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    story by qyron · 2023-10-25 · 0 comments
  34. …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
  35. …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
  36. …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
  37. Seems like they created it for the helix editor https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7814
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. …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...
  41. …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.
  42. …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
  43. …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
  44. …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
  45. …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
  46. …--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
  47. …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
  48. …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...
  49. …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...
  50. …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