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Reviewing some new Rust text editors

by mduggles on 9/8/22, 6:17 AM with 5 comments

• by guilherme-puida on 9/8/22, 11:47 AM

  Helix is really cool. I've been using it for a few months as my main editor, the defaults are great and LSP works seamlessly out of the box. My config file is only 9 lines long, and most of them are to change the cursor to match different modes.

• by mdtusz on 9/8/22, 3:48 PM

  I'll echo the sentiment that helix is great, but I still think the default behaviour of selecting words as you navigate with w,e,b to be strange and a bit counterproductive in most text editing (at least for me).

  There's a few other small things missing still - specifically marks and a git gutter - but once those are improved upon it very likely will become my daily editor!

• by mbStavola on 9/8/22, 2:23 PM

  I really like helix, but the one thing I miss most from kakoune is the ability to just hold down shift and press hjkl or arrow keys and get a nice selection going.

• by davidkunz on 9/8/22, 2:05 PM

  Helix is great, I made a video about it:

  https://youtu.be/9Zj-wiQ9_Xw