Some of you may have come across Helix - a very fast editor/IDE. Unfortunately, Helix has its own set of keybindings, modeled after Kakoune.

This was the one problem holding me back from using this excellent editor, so I soft-forked the peoject to add Vim keybindings. Now, two years later, I realize this might interest others as well, so here we go:

https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

I‘d be happy to polish the fork - which I carefully keep up-to-date with Helix‘s master branch for now. So let me know what you think!

And yes, I‘m also looking for a more original name.

  • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    As someone that never really clicked with Vim, but has been enjoying Helix, I’ve been looking for the opposite: something that makes Neovim follow the selection-action paradigm, along with all of the Helix keybindings.

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      6 months ago

      I feel the same way. I’ve been using helix for about a month now and really like its paradigm. But I’m missing some of the neovim features. And I’ve run into some lsp issues that I don’t think are present in neocon.

      • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        Yeah. I hope as Helix grows more popular, our problems will solve themselves in both directions: where Helix can address them directly, and people start hacking Neovim to work more like it.

        Out of curiosity: what issues with the LSP are you having and what distro do you run? I’ve found that most of my issues could be resolved by running Helix’s health checks and making sure that the binaries needed by the LSP are available in $PATH.

        Unfortunately, I did start having issues with Go where it seems like the LSP might be crashing and I’ve yet to resolve that one for myself.