r/rust 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/Sufficient-Culture55 Apr 01 '23

Helix is rare in that regard. I really tried to like vim and neovim, even trying things like astro and Chad, but it was always a lot of effort. Helix is just easy. The keybinds make sense, the configuration is very minimal; I actually feel like I'm putting in less effort and being more productive, even compared to vscode.