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Helix is just very, very excellent. I've spent less than 5 minutes total configuring it and I really have virtually not a single complaint and there's WIP for t

Helix is just very, very excellent. I've spent less than 5 minutes total configuring it and I really have virtually not a single complaint and there's WIP for the niceties that aren't present yet (sidebar/treeview, etc). I installed it, had some LSPs already on path. I configured it to show LSP messages and that was about it. It's very cool how gosh darn productive I can be, in such a short time due to the command palette built in. Seems like folks are taking note too. There's a few intro videos on YouTube that do a good job posted in the last few weeks; apparently some big Vim-guy streamer checked it out last week. Active Matrix room and constant code improvements. And native nix flakes support too ;) Btw, I find it a bit weird to include VsCode and Helix here together. Helix is perfectly usable as a Vim replacement for all basic text editing tasks, and a superior zero-config alternative in countless other scenarios.

modernerd 4y ago
I'm looking forward to a treeview too! https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2377 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2377 And subsequent icon support: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2869 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2869 > I find it a bit weird to include VsCode and Helix here together. I work with people who declared config bankruptcy, switched from Emacs/Neovim to VS Code, and are perfectly happy and (maybe even more?) productive as a result. VSC is not in the same category as vim but it seems to appeal because it's a halfway house between vim/Helix and a heavier IDE. John Carmack even said something similar about VSC in his Lex Fridman interview: 01:11:31.060 And I am super happy that that seems to be winning 01:11:33.540 over even a lot of the old Vim and Emacs people 01:11:36.140 that they're kind of like, 01:11:37.140 hey, visual studio code's maybe not so bad. 01:11:40.060 I am, that may be the final peacekeeping solution 01:11:43.260 where everybody is reasonably happy 01:11:45.620 with something like that. https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0309-large.html https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0309-large.html

modernerd 4y ago

I'm looking forward to a treeview too! https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2377 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2377 And subsequent icon support: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2869 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2869 > I find it a bit weird to include VsCode and Helix here together. I work with people who declared config bankruptcy, switched from Emacs/Neovim to VS Code, and are perfectly happy and (maybe even more?) productive as a result. VSC is not in the same category as vim but it seems to appeal because it's a halfway house between vim/Helix and a heavier IDE. John Carmack even said something similar about VSC in his Lex Fridman interview: 01:11:31.060 And I am super happy that that seems to be winning 01:11:33.540 over even a lot of the old Vim and Emacs people 01:11:36.140 that they're kind of like, 01:11:37.140 hey, visual studio code's maybe not so bad. 01:11:40.060 I am, that may be the final peacekeeping solution 01:11:43.260 where everybody is reasonably happy 01:11:45.620 with something like that. https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0309-large.html https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0309-large.html