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Yup, helix is awesome. Getting used to the new key bindings was hard. But the performance improvement alone was completely worth it. Vim/NeoVim has always been really slow for me when using LSP.
I also just love how the keybindings make more sense. Instead of vim’s verb-motion/object paradigm, you have a selection-verb paradigm in Helix, where you can see what you are about to change before doing it. No more re-doing your motion or macro or some shit just because you made a typo. It’s great. And I’m a (n)vim user of at least a decade before switching. I started with Kakoune before Helix though. That was a great transition.
Welcome to try it out! I’m here if you need any guidance or tips. LSP is not setup out of the box, just like with vim, so beware of that. And I don’t… particularly like the configuration format (TOML). But there’s very little that needs configuring IMO. Auto brackets are there, jump to file, jump to symbol, jump to buffer, jump to symbol project-wide, search file, search project, rename symbol, etc, etc, etc. It’s all there once LSPs are setup. 👍
Yup, helix is awesome. Getting used to the new key bindings was hard. But the performance improvement alone was completely worth it. Vim/NeoVim has always been really slow for me when using LSP.
I also just love how the keybindings make more sense. Instead of vim’s verb-motion/object paradigm, you have a selection-verb paradigm in Helix, where you can see what you are about to change before doing it. No more re-doing your motion or macro or some shit just because you made a typo. It’s great. And I’m a (n)vim user of at least a decade before switching. I started with Kakoune before Helix though. That was a great transition.
Damn, I might have to try it out. Don’t really feel like redoing my neovim config, though.
Welcome to try it out! I’m here if you need any guidance or tips. LSP is not setup out of the box, just like with vim, so beware of that. And I don’t… particularly like the configuration format (TOML). But there’s very little that needs configuring IMO. Auto brackets are there, jump to file, jump to symbol, jump to buffer, jump to symbol project-wide, search file, search project, rename symbol, etc, etc, etc. It’s all there once LSPs are setup. 👍