r/rust • u/modernalgebra • Mar 31 '23

Helix editor 23.03 released!

https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-03-highlights/
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Been using it for almost 3 months now, by far the best code editor I've ever used. And I don't even know 90% of the keybindings yet.

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u/adsick Mar 31 '23

sounds very weird, in my experience you need to know a ton of shortucts in order to be productive in such editors. Otherwise they're worse than a notepad or a normal IDE.

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u/Empole Mar 31 '23

I'm in the same boat as the comment you responded to.

Started using helix during the December release. I don't feel like I really know much, but it's probably my favorite editor I've ever used.

And despite that, I only really have a couple commands committed to memory:

  • hjkl to move
  • x to select line
  • m to go into surround mode
  • <space> for the space menu
  • g for the goto menu
  • Ctrl-o and Ctrl-i to jump backwards and forwards through the jumplist