Was looking into understand why everyone talks about neovim instead of vim and found myself trying Helix and … wow out of the box I learned more how to use a vim-like editor than in one year on vim ???
@tournesol I really like it, it fits my mental model better (select first, act on selection). Only thing that prevents me from daily driving it is the lack of plug-in support yet. Hopefully soon!
@beeb yeah seems so much natural ! And cause I was on vim vanilla, seems to me that there is so much things available out of the box. I don’t have to look for the best plugins for ages, feels like christmas :amaze:
@tournesol Neovim is a huge improvement over #Vim, but it is too primitive compared to #Helix, especially without 20-30 plugins.
I made the migration from #Neovim to Helix more than a year ago and it is my main editor since then.
It wasn't easy to throw my 700 lines of Neovim config away because throwing them away would mean that I wasted my time writing and maintaining config that randomly broke after some updates. But I did it because it was worth it:
@tournesol#Helix has everything I needed from my many #Neovim plugins but out of the box and MUCH better integrated!
Who thought that needing multiple plugins in a "modern" editor for simple completions is a good idea?
Anyway, I highly recommend trying out Helix for at least a week to be able to adapt the muscle memory. You get a very powerful workspace, especially if you pair it with #Zellij and #GitUI 🚀
@mo8it yeah, for the config. I installed lazyvim once and was so overwheled by everything that I had to uninstall everything. That’s when I figured that I was too lazy to pimp my editor x)
@LudoBike I dropped reading the tutor of vim a while ago… too long and complicated. Just finished the helix tutor and it seemed easier ? Don’t know if it’s because the hotkeys seems more intuitive or I learned a bit of the vocab using vim
