Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

It's great to see more projects in the space, but for me it's not really about the editor itself any more, it's about the ecosystem and the extensibility. The act of selecting and changing text is just a small part of the problem space. I use emacs not because I'm a neckbeard, but because I can script it to do whatever the hell I like. I switch to vscode when I want to do something my emacs setup isn't yet…

Long-time Vim/NeoVim user here...about 20 or so years with it being my daily driver for the last 8. As soon as I found Helix, I was unsure whether it would become my new editor, but I've been using it every day for a few months and haven't really looked back. The only thing I still use Vim for is `vimdiff` with Git, but I don't think I need to, just been lazy about configuring Helix to do the same thing…

This is only tangentially related, but regarding: >>Post-modern?! >It's a joke. If Neovim is the modern Vim, then Helix is post-modern. It's interesting that postmodern is so often used by people, perhaps less familiar with the arts and the humanities, to mean "an update to modern" or a progression thereof. They use it in a strictly literal sense, eschewing the precise meaning of the term they're referencing by mere addition of discontinuity as incremental difference. Obviously, there's little impact to…

I test-drived helix for a couple of months, and it is really fast. My major pain points compared to Neovim: - lack of global search (like ripgrep integration) and something like dumb-jump/anyjump — it's faster and less resource-intensive than running LSP - I encountered a couple of panics losing my unsaved changes after 24.03 update, most recently yesterday. Looks related to this bug: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/3501 I can live with no global search, but not with data loss. Probably will stop using…