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I gave Helix a try last week and I think there are a lot of things to like about it, but until it supports soft text wrapping for prose documents it's effective
by scblock 4y ago
I gave Helix a try last week and I think there are a lot of things to like about it, but until it supports soft text wrapping for prose documents it's effectively useless to me. I'm not going to bounce back and forth between neovim and helix depending on whether I'm editing code, documentation, or personal notes.
The comments on the open issue in Github are not particularly encouraging.
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/136 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/136
- bobbyskelton41 4y agoI would say they're pretty encouraging. There's a straightforward path to implement it, and some work is being done on that front.
- aussiesnack 4y agoAs far as I understand from scanning the PR, there's been more than a year of discussion with no actual progress on a basic (if not in this case simple to implement) feature which is universally available in text editors. Helix looks nice in many ways (I installed it last night and have worked with it on a couple of Rust projects today) but it's clearly more of a research project with potential than current practical tool.
- bobbyskelton41 4y agoI wouldn't say so. It's taken so long because it hasn't been a priority for the developers, and nobody else picked it up.