I am not yet faster at #helix than I am at #vscode , but dammit I'd rather use something developed to be completely free and open source, unlike vscode.

I considered alternatives, like Zed, but they have a CLA for their contributors, which in my eyes leaves room for a potential close sourcing in the distant future.

In the new version of #helix, we get this new awesome pop up for global search... which I love.

However, I still can't seem how to navigate back through history to auto complete the last thing I searched for.

I can see it ghost text, but cannot figure out how to autocomplete it.

Any help? (this is when I hit space + /)

If I have a #codeberg account set up, with a verified #ssh key on my account and the corresponding public and private keys in `~/.ssh/`, is there a way that I can make it so that it doesn't ask me for my keyphrase every time I push? I'm sure VSCode could do this, but since I've switched to #Helix, which doesn't have git built-in I've been manually doing the git stuff.
My knowledge of #cryptography and #git are well and truly at the 'barely enough to get myself into trouble' level.
#AskFedi

Felix on Helix:

“A Review Of Helix After 1.5 Years”, Felix Knorr (https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2025-03-16-helix-review.html).

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/miyoai/review_helix_after_1_5_years

This was kinda nice the other night, so I'll try again:

1.) I used some alone time for a solid nap.
2.) I went out for vegan tacos and margaritas.
3.) I discovered the #Kakoune & #Helix improvements to the Vim command paradigm and my Spock brain is pleased.

I wrote about my minimal setup for blogging and note taking. Wat do you think?

Some time ago I wrote about using Helix editor on FreeBSD. I liked the „batteries included“ approach and I was curious to see whether Helix could be an actual replacement for Neovim.

I really tried and I forced myself to like Helix. And yes, Helix’s approach might be perfect for newbies who have never worked before with vim. But at some point I found myself on a customer’s server, desperately pressing ‚d‘ and wondering why it didn’t delete the character under my cursor. At this point I decided to dump Helix. The fact that some commands are slightly different, but not completely, made it hard for me to switch between systems and made me look like a complete idiot when editing a config while sharing the screen with a client.

BTW is there meanwhile an option to run lua-language-server on FreeBSD? I am using kickstart with nvim and it’s complaining that it can’t install the lsp because it’s not supported on this platform.

This is a great introductory blog post about the Helix modal editor. It's also been my first choice for over a year now. I am really looking forward to the Steel plugin system, though. I don't think I need a lot of plugins, but one or two would certainly be on my wish list.

https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2025-03-16-helix-review.html

Another little @codepen demo: pure #CSS double ball helix https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/JreoKw

(yet another demo that cold be simplified by the `position: absolute` to `display: grid` switch for stacking and in the future, further simplified by `sibling-index()`)

I use #kakoune. I am exploring #helix (very lightly so far).

What are your opinions on the two editors? Would you highly recommend one over the other?

#helix vs #neovim. spot the differences!

the main one isn't really visible, though: helix has a built-in #treesitter, and it does a great job at highlighting #rust out of the box, with zero configuration and dependencies!

this way, i don't have 20 plugins in #lua and/or #vimscript running in the background and autoupdating from #github - awesome! config is plain #toml - no need to write it in turing-complete languages which i only know poorly

shout out @bobulous https://www.bobulous.org.uk/coding/Helix-crib-sheet.html

I created a crib sheet for the #Helix text editor:

https://www.bobulous.org.uk/coding/Helix-crib-sheet.html

Best viewed on a big screen.

As usual I intended the new page to be compact and concise; and as usual it ended up being huge and rambling. Hopefully it'll still be of use to people who aren't fully familiar with the most useful keys and commands. (And just maybe of vague interest to #Neovim users who are thinking about trying Helix.)

Let me know if you spot anything incorrect.