Helix

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

considering giving it a real try, it has a lot of features I like, and I especially like the idea of basically not configuring anything.

The thought of re-learning all those shortcuts that are hard-wired into my fingers though...

Helix tutor

This page gives some vim translations

the python support uses pylsp, install with pip install python-lsp-server docs

• delete a line: xd

• go to definition: gd

  • ga will go back to the last file, but I'm not sure that works quite like my vim gh does, which goes back up the goto stack
  • ctrl-o goes "backward on the jumplist", which seems to do what I want

• select lines

  • two options:
    • v to start a visual selection, jjj or any movement to move down, then X to "extend selection to line boundaries"
    • xxx will select the three lines beginning where the cursor is

• config-open to load the config file

• to replace all:

  • x to enter visual selection mode, % to select whole file, s to select a regular expression, c to change at the cursors, enter the replacement, , to remove the secondary cursors
  • x%s<find><enter>c<replace><esc>,
  • This seems a lot more cumbersome than %s/something/other?

• got an everforest theme from this repo and installed it by copying it into ~/.config/helix/themes, then did config-open and changed theme="everforest_dark_medium"

• there's currently no equivalent to vim's gq command, which is kind of a deal-breaker for me at the moment. Got farther than I had before though!

  • confirmed this on the helix matrix channel
  • now it has :reflow controlled by the text-width attribute (here is the PR that implemented it)
    • issue here for how it lacks features of :gq, via Julia Evans