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Helix - A modal text editor (helix-editor.com)

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Helix does not aim to be a better vim / neovim. Thus, for example, there are officially no vim bindings and Helix follows the selection → action model. Helix is also a relatively new project.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Differences-from

https://docs.helix-editor.com/title-page.html

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[–] nous 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starter kits for vim/emacs IMO are a band-aid on the fundamental problem with them - poor default settings for the majority of use cases. I do think that an editor that takes the out the box experience is sorely needed in the cli editor space that helix fills quite nicely.

The big problems with starter kits is they are more fiddly to install - often require you to curl | bash some random script. They tend to mess around with your users config files in ways that you don't always expect. And they require you to keep up to date a large amount of plugins that sometimes end up breaking for various reasons. All of this adds some friction to new users.

Yes less friction than creating the configs and fetching the plugins yourself as you need to in vim/emacs. But helix remove all that fiction by just including all people expect from a modern editor from the start.

So I think it does a disservice to discount it completely just because starter kits can do a similar thing after you manage to get them installed.

but that’ll crawl to a halt as more packages depend on behavior you want to change.

I am not sure what you mean by this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vim has

poor default settings for the majority of use cases

Huh? Anyone who knows vim is going to have zero issues with a default setup in just about any use case. That statement makes no sense.

[–] nous 1 points 1 year ago

Just because someone that knows vim can use its defaults does not make them good defaults with zero issues. Or else most people would not have huge amounts of config and plguins to change them.

Though I do admit that by majority of use cases was really more of the majority of people I see wanting to use it as a code editor.

I don't know anyone that would want to use an unconfigured vim instance locally for editing things over vscode or similar editors. But helix? yeah I see more and more people liking it with out the need to edit any config file. The only real time I see people using vim unconfigured is when interacting with servers where it is more of a pain to get their configuration on them than what they need to do on the server.