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It’s one of those tools that’s well designed and you don’t need a thousand line configuration file to be productive. The modal editing style is also an improvem
by bgar 8mo ago
It’s one of those tools that’s well designed and you don’t need a thousand line configuration file to be productive. The modal editing style is also an improvement over vim/neovim because you do selection -> action rather than action -> selection. Lastly, it’s written in Rust, which is not a plus purely because of that but because it’s a lot easier to contribute code changes to or tweak a modern Rust codebase.
- lenkite 7mo agoHard disagree. It is not an improvement - it is a deterioration. Repeat (dot command .) is far more powerful and general thanks to operator->action. Much better composability with counts, registers, marks and operators with operator->action Operator Pending mode has some unique advantages for swipe edits that are painful in a select first paradigm. Ex: `d/foo<CR>`. No fast equivalent in Helix. Also, if you really want, you can select in VIM and do your job too. Use visual mode with `v`.