- You can see what you do before you do it!
- Mouse support!
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:oto open will show you - Themes! I luv
bogsterandgithub-light - Language server support built in!
- Menus! If you press
ga little menu will pop up telling you all the ways you can move! - Buffers and registers and macros!
- It's just a 13MiB binary! You install it by dropping it in your
$PATH!- *on macos, most windows, and on glibc linuxes. sorry musl people, but you must be used to compiling from source by now
- also, sorry arm-based windows users. no prebuilt binaries there either. you did this to yourself
- It just works, out of the box!! You won't find yourself in configuration hell like neovim users!
I've always been vim-curious but it never stuck. I started using Helix because of its mouse-support, even over SSH, and I've slowly been able to pick up the various skills. Little shortcuts here and there. Then I eventually sat down with Helix tutor and now I feel like a bonkers wizard.
(I also ssh into servers from my phone, and it turns out that vimlikes are fantastic for editing config files on a phone. No arrow keys, no problem. But "I can edit server configurations on a phone" feels like too much of a curse to add to a list of good things.)
Helix is good good. It's Vim but without the massive timesink. I highly recommend it
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