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Helix - A modal text editor (helix-editor.com)

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Helix does not aim to be a better vim / neovim. Thus, for example, there are officially no vim bindings and Helix follows the selection → action model. Helix is also a relatively new project.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Differences-from

https://docs.helix-editor.com/title-page.html

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Been using it on all my machines for many months now. Replaced all my basic usage that I had of vim/neovim and all the attempted and failed customisations and plugins I had tried to install. It works very well for console editing any file I need to reach without being overwhelming with weird short cuts I'll never be able to learn and with nice enough UI/UX that guides and teaches. Even better the integration with lsp allows to launch some project files and have the basics like go to definition kinda work.

Tried to learn vim for many years without being succefull in doing much more than just moving around and inserting/deleting text with the most basic commands.

It's great for anyone that doesn't want to go the vim route but still get a powerful editor to learn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

While I totally understand the struggle of learning Vim, I would still recommend it over Helix for the fact that most popular IDE support "vim mode" or "vim plugin", making vim not only a text editor but also a popular workflow across development environments. I would totally try out Helix if the key memory isn't only restricted to the Helix program