nvim-controlflow-queries VS helix

Really interesting and this inspired me to build my own color scheme that focuses on the control flow and is much less of a rainbow than traditional color schemes. For example, function calls, ifs, returns, ... are all white and bold. The rest of the code is less prominent.

Often colour schemes can be there "just" to reaffirm the structure of the code. If I ask one of my friend devs "what does green mean in your editor?" they won't know the answer until they look at the code. In my colour scheme you know that white and bold changes the flow of the code and requires more attention.

Type checking, linters and formatters take care of semantics. Ie. I don't need a string and number colored differently, because type checker will tell me it's not right.

I already open sourced the treesitter queries that enable the control flow color schemes in neovim: https://github.com/meznaric/nvim-controlflow-queries

If anyone is interested let me know and I will focus on open sourcing the color scheme this weekend.

Nice post. Obligatory Helix plug: For anyone interested in taking this further, there are whole editors designed around multi-cursor editing.

https://helix-editor.com/

I could never turn it off completely but I do sometimes use the Acme theme during the day (it's too bright in the evening), which highlights just comments, strings, and errors.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Themes#acme

You can use a snippet LSP to work around Helix not having a built-in LSP manager. They're listed in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/395

I'm probably not the average python programmer.

But I normally just create two terminals (I have a tiling window manager) and in one I open a python file under /tmp/ write my code and execute it in the other terminal.

I would probably use a REPL if it was integrated in my favorite editor ( https://helix-editor.com ).

Wow, that's been there a while: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/35c974c9c49f912...

Wonder how I missed that. I'm getting a re-education in helix today -- thank you! I'll go through `hx --tutor` again before I insert any more feet in my mouth.

Interesting to see how they are gonna approach integrating plugins/extensions system, because this is likely gonna be one of the major factors affecting adoption and ecosystem growth.

Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...