Thank you for your introduction to Helix. ❤❤❤

Thanks Mike! Good video. I like how the fuzzy file-find shows the full path of the files before the file-name. It helps visualize the structure better. I wish VSCode worked the same way! BTW: VSCode has all that multi-cursor goodness. I love that feature.

Exactly the video i was looking for.

@mikekellytech

Ай бұрын

Excellent! I'm glad you found it useful!

i would have been a Helix user but I am too dependent on vim motions. I do like the way it toggles to select text so when I made my most recent vim config, I added it to it. But now I am using Emacs with evil-mode because Vim wasn't enough, and emacs has a lot of the things available but you just need to enable it and Org-mode (my most favorite thing about emacs). If your up for it, you can use the Doom Emacs distribution. I uses vim keybindings (although some bindings does what it suppose to do but not in the way you expect it. Like when pasting text, in vim, lowercase p pastes text on the same line, I got it to paste on the line below, and Capital p, pastes it on the line above. Emacs copies it where ever the cursor is regardless if its a upper or lower. but besides that, all of the bindings I normally use work as intended.

@mikekellytech

3 ай бұрын

yeah I get that. Lots of Vim users have that muscle memory. I'm "lucky" in that I didn't have that yet. So Helix is the muscle memory now.

Using helix from vscode means: having helix experience in vscode, like vim extension for vim

@mikekellytech

3 ай бұрын

I changed it to: Using Helix - Coming from VSCode (3 weeks in) Does that make more sense?

@Primeagen

3 ай бұрын

@@mikekellytech yes, now it's more appropriate and more catchy as well

In the file picker use tab and shift-tab to move up and down the list.

@mikekellytech

3 ай бұрын

good tip! Thanks

You can set helix keybindings to also open commands or apps as a buffer! for example i have C-g to open lazygit. You can do that with yazi

@mikekellytech

2 ай бұрын

Ohhh, can you share the command for that? I can't seem to find it in the docs. How to open a command in a buffer

@rossdafodil7931

2 ай бұрын

@@mikekellytech [keys.normal] C-g = [":new", ":insert-output lazygit", ":buffer-close!", ":redraw"] (from kzread.info/dash/bejne/omel2LWzZLWwpNY.html&ab_channel=SourceSyrup)

You can use lazyvim to make the configuration simpler

does your setup do auto pair tags?

@mikekellytech

2 ай бұрын

Yup! If you mean if you open a tag it will autocomplete the close tag, yes. Same with opening an if statement braces, it will add the close, etc

@amanuelmekashaw8738

2 ай бұрын

​@@mikekellytechhow did you do that can you make the config video i am struggling with writing html and php code

It's all cool but can it beat micro? 😄 Helix is pre configured out of the box but if you face any limitation no one can help you (while other editors have multiple extension for any use case). This is a big flaw in a long run.

Sublime is a fantastic editor to consider using as well. Its technically modeless, but you can add key bindings to create custom modes if you want a modal experience

@eidiazcas

Ай бұрын

sublime? 🤮

whats the point of an editor that as it bests, will looks like neovim?

@tubeincompetence

3 ай бұрын

Not half way through the video yet, but if he didn't feel he really got used to VIM and he gets used to Helix, why not? He didn't complain about the looks of VIM

@abra-k

2 ай бұрын

just simpler to get into. There are also less things that could go wrong (!in my experience!) in comparison to vim. I like the keybindings more as well: instead of `dw` you would do `wd`, since it selects the word. Makes it a little easier to see the selection before you do an action. the obvious downside is: no plugin support, but it's being worked on. But honestly just use a vim plugin in vscode if you want to get things done xd. The largest ecosystem with great keybindings.