Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune

• helix

  405 30,156 9.9 Rust

  A post-modern modal text editor.

  

I gave Helix a shot, and I immediately ran into a wall due to an undocumented limitation where in a language configuration, indentation can only be up to 8 spaces. (I'm working on an Assembly project with an indentation of 12 spaces to make more room for labels.)

I checked the source code to figure out what the heck was going on, and I found this: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/207829eefee51095d...

Pretty often, my projects have weirdly specific needs like this. I think (Neo)Vim's greatest strength is that it always absolutely has some way of covering a weirdly specific need, whether a one-off command or a project configuration. But that seems to be against Helix's philosophy.

If Helix can't be the editor, then I can't justify taking the time to learn it. It makes me sad, though, because I really like what it's going for.

• helix-vim

  27 859 2.0

  A Vim-like configuration for Helix

Not that they're inherently worse, just different - I'm perfectly happy with vim motions and relearning to type is pretty low on my list of priorities. Luckily there is a compatibility hack, not perfect but it's close enough: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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