Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights

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  • steel

    An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust

  • I absolutely don't mind the plugin system being a Scheme. It's a plugin for a text editor, and Steel(https://github.com/mattwparas/steel) seems to be a lot less of a maintenance burden than WASM plugins(besides that I find the WASM tooling to be extremely complex).

    But besides all that, Helix learned be that I don't need fancy plugins or endless finicking with config files and toolchains. Using a combination of other tools, like yazi and lazygit, helps me not only inside my editor but outside of it as well. And Kakoune does this even better. In that regard it has been a real eye-opener and refreshing. The downside is, it's hard to go back to other editors!

  • kakoune

    mawww's experiment for a better code editor

  • Helix's modal editing is based on Kakoune's modal editing which is like an evolution to Vim's modal editing. You can think of it as being always in selection (visual) mode. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#selectio...

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  • meow

    Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 (by meow-edit)

  • Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger.

    Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline...

    https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

    https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

  • kakoune.el

    A very simple simulation of the kakoune editor inside of emacs.

  • Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger.

    Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline...

    https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

    https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

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