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I've been using Helix full time, professionally as a Rust/Golang engineer and it has been great. It took some getting used to not having a file explorer. But no

by kjuulh 3y ago

I've been using Helix full time, professionally as a Rust/Golang engineer and it has been great. It took some getting used to not having a file explorer. But now I think I am better for it. These looks to be fantastic updates, I especially dig the diagnostics (if that is part of the release as well).

trefoiled 3y ago
what's your workflow like for situations where you need to poke around in an unfamiliar directory and open files in helix?
- kruxigt 3y ago
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- kjuulh 3y ago
  I mainly use ranger, or some conveniece scripts I've built around ripgrep, ripgrep replace and fd. When i find the file i want I either open it directly to do a small chance or use the fuzzy search in my long running session to open the file. The only thing I haven't nailed yet is creating files in deeply nested directories. In general most of the things I used in nvim have now moved back to the terminal which has its pros and cons.
- 0x008 3y ago
  you could try to use ranger or a similar terminal filemanager. it's basically like nvimtree or nerdtree
- quaxj 3y ago
  I use broot :)
- nilsherzig 3y ago
  There are a lot of nice tui s for this, but saidly helix does not support opening new files into an existing session :(
  - trefoiled 3y ago
    this is the big problem. I hope there's a fix for it someday.
- e12e 3y ago
  Open the root in helix, use the fuzzy file finder (space-f) for looking up by name path, or global search (space-/) for finding by content.
dmagyari 3y ago
I also use Helix full time, I really like it, especially the multi cursor features. I was a neovim user before, but I did not enjoy configuring my editor all the time. I like Helix config defaults, LSP works out of the box, the commands are a bit longer to type, but more logical. I cannot 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 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768
- kjuulh 3y ago
  Yeah I've considered it. For now ranger in a pop up term works nice enough for me. Ranger is a bit slow so I should move to lf or some other alternative.
  - b0sk 3y ago
    Check out joshuto - https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto also written in Rust
    - francoispon 3y ago
      so is yazi ;) https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi
- WirelessGigabit 3y ago
  How long did it take you to reverse your movement->action muscle memory?

by kjuulh 3y ago

trefoiled 3y ago

what's your workflow like for situations where you need to poke around in an unfamiliar directory and open files in helix?

kruxigt 3y ago
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kjuulh 3y ago
I mainly use ranger, or some conveniece scripts I've built around ripgrep, ripgrep replace and fd. When i find the file i want I either open it directly to do a small chance or use the fuzzy search in my long running session to open the file. The only thing I haven't nailed yet is creating files in deeply nested directories. In general most of the things I used in nvim have now moved back to the terminal which has its pros and cons.
0x008 3y ago
you could try to use ranger or a similar terminal filemanager. it's basically like nvimtree or nerdtree
quaxj 3y ago
I use broot :)
nilsherzig 3y ago
There are a lot of nice tui s for this, but saidly helix does not support opening new files into an existing session :(
- trefoiled 3y ago
  this is the big problem. I hope there's a fix for it someday.
e12e 3y ago
Open the root in helix, use the fuzzy file finder (space-f) for looking up by name path, or global search (space-/) for finding by content.

dmagyari 3y ago

I also use Helix full time, I really like it, especially the multi cursor features. I was a neovim user before, but I did not enjoy configuring my editor all the time. I like Helix config defaults, LSP works out of the box, the commands are a bit longer to type, but more logical. I cannot 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 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768

kjuulh 3y ago
Yeah I've considered it. For now ranger in a pop up term works nice enough for me. Ranger is a bit slow so I should move to lf or some other alternative.
- b0sk 3y ago
  Check out joshuto - https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto also written in Rust
  - francoispon 3y ago
    so is yazi ;) https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi
WirelessGigabit 3y ago
How long did it take you to reverse your movement->action muscle memory?