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What are your top tips for new Helix users? (self.helix)

submitted 1 year ago by bugsmith to c/helix

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I've started using Helix occasionally as I stumbled across the editor when trying to customize vim for Rust.

Immediately, I fell in love with how (mostly) plug and play Helix is.

Over the next few months, I plan to use Helix more and more. If you have any useful tips on usage, customization or anything else I am all ears.

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[–] philm 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For basic usage (similar as vimtutor): hx --tutor

For the other stuff, as already said, the docs should be rather thorough, the wiki may also be a starting point

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 year ago

It's a bit annoying that the tutorial ends saying it's incomplete and there's more to learn, but doesn't give you any suggestions on what to learn next.

[–] starman 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not using helix for a long time, but I can suggest you to just look at configuration docs and see what you would like to change. Most of defaults are very nice in helix, but sometimes you might want to add something.

EDIT: Also install LSPs, if you haven't already.

[–] lavafroth 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people know about the :reflow command to hard-wrap text to a given width but you can also :set soft-wrap.enable true.

[–] bugsmith 1 points 1 year ago

That is definitely new to me (both are, actually). Thanks.