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I went into this expecting it to be another toy editor that someone was showing off. But no, this thing is legitimately impressive! I had just been messing aro
by ziml77 4y ago
I went into this expecting it to be another toy editor that someone was showing off. But no, this thing is legitimately impressive!
I had just been messing around with my neovim config because of that Leap plugin that was posted here. I decided to also install and configure the Lua language server because I wanted to try switching away from Vimscript for my init file.
Since that file was still fresh in my mind, it was the first thing I opened after installing Helix, and to my surprise it immediately showed me warning markers in the gutter and moving the cursor over the underlined symbol showed the langue server's complaints. I love that it just worked from having the language server installed!
Also while messing with neovim yesterday I was thinking about seeing if there was a plugin to show possible operations after pressing the leader key, like what you get with Spacemacs. I decided to try hitting the spacebar in Helix to see what happened and was impressed to see that it popped up with a menu showing how I could continue my input.
I'm sure I'll run into annoyances after using it for a while, but damn does this project leave an excellent first impression.