Helix Editor – 90% of Neovim With Kakoune

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  • nvim-lspconfig

    Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

  • I’ve spend too many hours setting up the recent NeoVim features (since v0.5): tree-sitter, nvim-lsp, nvim-cmp.

  • Lobsters

    Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

  • By chance I stumbled upon a review of Rust text editors on lobste.rs.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • nvim-cmp

    A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.

  • I’ve spend too many hours setting up the recent NeoVim features (since v0.5): tree-sitter, nvim-lsp, nvim-cmp.

  • dotfiles

    dev setup: kitty, fish, helix, tmux, etc. (by sophiabrandt)

  • In fact, my configuration has become more complicated over the years.

  • kakoune

    mawww's experiment for a better code editor

  • The article favorably mentions Helix, a modal text editor inspired by Vim and Kakoune. Other commentators also seemed taken with this new text editor.

  • vim-surround

    surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease

  • Helix is a fully-fledged text editor that comes with wonderful capabilities out of the box. For example, you get a fuzzy file finder, language server integration, a vim-surround-like plugin and great editor themes for free.

  • helix

    A post-modern modal text editor.

  • The maintainers plan a plugin system with WebAssembly, which would be a big milestone for the project.

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