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so, after half a year, here are my thoughts on helix editor that nobody cares about. well, might help someone that wants to switch.

helix is an actual plug & play. you install it, you run it, and you’re done. you have search, macros, find & replace, you have global search, multi-cursor, etc. everything else is customized through the config. the language support is actually fascinating, as i can open up any file and helix would actually try and run an associated language server for that language. e g clangd for C and C++, zls for zig, etc. this is actually really compelling to me as a neovim user, as no setup is needed, and no plugins like telescope is necessary. helix has nice keybinds, commands, to select a file you can use a telescope-like menu, which is really good.

for now helix is my new editor of choice, with it i actually get shit done. in neovim i had a problem where indentation would fail for some reason and not place spaces where needed. there’s no issue with that in helix. and, well, helix is more lightweight, which is why i can use it on a server. it doesn’t require any dependencies, and is just one command to install.

so long, neovim. come back when you get a fucking ‘mkdir -p’ wrapper out of the box.