dotfiles VS helix

Compare dotfiles vs helix and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

My dotfiles, managed by chezmoi (by politician)

helix

A post-modern modal text editor. (by helix-editor)
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dotfiles helix
1 405
14 30,328
- 4.1%
5.6 9.9
9 months ago about 17 hours ago
Shell Rust
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-30.
  • A Decade of Dotfiles
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2022
    Albeit I have only been using it for a few months as opposed to the author’s decade.

    I guess the idea is to find the one tool/methodology that sticks with you.

    [1] https://github.com/politician/dotfiles

helix

Posts with mentions or reviews of helix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and helix you can also consider the following projects:

swyxdotio - This is the repo for swyx's blog - Blog content is created in github issues, then posted on swyx.io as blog pages! Comment/watch to follow along my blog within GitHub

kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor

fling - File/directory symlinker similar to GNU Stow. Manages dotfiles well

lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

dockerfiles - Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

direnv - unclutter your .profile

micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

nonguix

copilot.vim - Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot