Helix: An amazing terminal text editor!

In this video, I talk about the Helix text editor! A Vim-like, terminal text editor, written in Rust!

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[UliTroyo]

I’ve been a Helix hipster for a year. I LIVE for Helix motions! It’s my favorite way to edit now, and I was already a fan of Vim.

[jozsefk]

Helix is really good. Using it all the time.

[Phantm]

btw u should add `bufferline = "multiple"` so that u can see what u have open at the top. kinda like tabs

[Berecutecu]

I really liked this! Thanks for sharing

[LudoTechWorld]

It's always nice to see a "new" modal editor, and it has the advantage of being shipped with the minimum required to start being productive right away which is nice. But for the moment, I don't really see the appeal, since it's just a Neovim with the couple of plugins everyone use already enabled, and no possibility to add more. I'm curious to see how the plugin system will work though. Thanks for the video!

[jyothishkumar]

This is exactly what I needed yet again! I heard about Helix from Mii beta channel, and I've already switched to it now.

Edit: Never thought I'd run `xbps-remove neovim nvi` but here I am (`nvi` was a dependency of `base-system`, but removed `neovim`)

[takouhai]

Great video! I've been looking into helix to scratch that itch that neovim leaves me with. Appreciate you going over the basics.

[vlusky_husky]

i am too dumb for (neo)vim and my computer is too ancient for vscode

helix is in the goldilocks zone i love it so much

[oluchiiyeh]

Nice video, man, pls how did you get to make helix bg transparent?

[jonescity]

Love the video dude may I ask...? What Window manager and bar are you using?

[sykotes]

bro i love your hyprland config it looks very cool

[mohammedresool]

What conf are you using for hyper land?

[saeidsaati]

Thank you for this video, I just installed it now, and it was a bit hard to me when 0 didn't go to first of the line, and $ didn't go to end of line, x didn't removed a character and so on, learning curve of vim itself was a bit hard, now imagine we also should change them again, I liked the way helix was feature rich by default rather than a vanilla vim/neovim, I like config file of it (pretty simple), but still I wish its keybinding was exactly like the vim

[NamasenITN]

I think you can easily remap short-cuts in VIM, unless I am mistaken.,

[Light-fg]

Hello, and could you make a video serious for adding plugin for helix like tree, lsp theme adding programming language support c++, python auto completion, treesitter than in neovim so on

[MichaelWilliams-lrmb]

It's only hx on some systems. If you install it in arch, the command is helix. There is an additional AUR package to get hx, though I've typically just either symlinked it or written a shell script for it. :)

[Ahmad-lcln]

Bro, I need the Waybar style & config I like the 3d buttons

[eidiazcas]

helix is absolutely fantastic, I hope it gets plugins soon, otherwise it's still a hard sell for many

[chicpak]

Hi @Oglo Nice video. Can you make a video on how to install language servers manually like clang and lldb-vscode and config the languages.toml. I really have older version of cpp running on helix as well as nvim

[keltyll]

Seems cool, but man, it took me forever to figure out vim/neovim. Not sure I wanna go through all that again with another tool like Helix.