• 1984@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      If only Helix would have vim mappings and a plugin system, it would kill neovim over night…

      In it’s current state, it’s only suitable for people who don’t need any plugins. So if you want a plugin for picking a virtual environment in python for example, you just can’t do it in Helix.

      I don’t know, to me it’s really limited without any form of plugins. I truly wish it had a plugin system because tons of people would write high quality rust plugins.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a weird way to look at the projects, in my opinion (“if only X had Y, it would kill Z…”).

        Helix and Neovim have different approaches to editing, configuration, etc. They don’t need to be competing for users. Neovim can exist for the people who want an editor with Neovim’s ideas, same for Helix, and that’s just fine.

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        1 year ago

        Helix having vim mappings would defeat the purpose. But once you do hx --tutor it’s super easy and intuitive coming from vim/nvim

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        I think it’s possible to remap Helix to be almost (if not completely) Vim-like. I got it to be (I think completely) Kakoune-like with like 15 lines in my config.