Threads for archseer

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      matklad avatar matklad 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

      I wish so hard for either of:

      • helix growing a gui and plugin system
      • lapce growing helix/kakoune editing mode
      • zed shipping

      I’ve been programming for some time, and still don’t have an editor I can comfortably put at the foundation of my workflow :(

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        archseer avatar archseer 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

        helix growing a gui and plugin system

        It’ll happen! It’s just a lot of work… That said, thanks for making rust-analyzer a joy to integrate with! It’s certainly been one of the most spec compliant language servers :)

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          matklad avatar matklad 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

          It’s certainly been one of the most spec compliant language servers

          Heh, that’s surprising. Our relationship with LSP historically was, ahem, adversarial, we shipped a tonne of extensions for missing bits and I still recommend people to sometimes, eg ignore the spec :)

          Though, one thing we did early on is to outright crash and burn if we think we detect a spec violation. This allowed us to iron out a lot of bugs in many different clients, and even some of our own bugs :)

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      fs111 avatar fs111 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

      I want to like helix, but my brain keeps thinking this is vim and there are too many vim shortcuts I apparently use all the time that don’t work in helix - or are just different. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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        archseer avatar archseer 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

        I’d say it’s painful for a day or two then you start adapting. I’m biased though of course :)

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          hdeshev avatar hdeshev 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

          I’ve been a Vim user for 15+ years. It took me a couple of days to get used to Helix shortcuts, but it was so worth it…

          I threw away years of Vim hacks accumulated in my ~/.vim dir and replaced them with a half-page config. I’m not going back!

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            Goobly avatar Goobly 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

            Can you share your config?

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              hdeshev avatar hdeshev 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

              Don’t expect much :)

              theme = "monokai_pro"

[editor.lsp]
display-messages = true

[keys.normal]
C-s = ":write-all"
A-a = "save_selection"
space = {t = [":write-all", ":sh tmux send-keys -t 0 last_test c-m"]}

[keys.insert]
C-s = [":write-all", "normal_mode"]

              Basically two key bindings, the most important one being my test runner for the tmux pane next to hx. Helix does the rest. Works like a charm for Go and TypeScript (every day at $JOB) and the occasional Rust project.

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        freddyb avatar freddyb 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

        Same. Muscle memory can be really strong. How cool would it be if there was a built-in tutorial where a text file is instructing you how to interact with it (maybe changing a simple block of text? Maybe a program in the coming levels), showcasing typical strengths of the highlighting-by-default flow, some refactoring, some search and replace etc.

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          archseer avatar archseer 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

          How cool would it be if there was a built-in tutorial where a text file is instructing you how to interact with it

          We do have this! It’s available via hx --tutor

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            freddyb avatar freddyb 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

            Wow that’s just lovely. Thanks!

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        donpdonp avatar donpdonp 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

        I had that problem too - until I remapped a few keys to avoid the pain points. See djacuen’s link in this comment thread for some example rebindings.

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        rseymour avatar rseymour 9 months ago | link | on: Helix Release 22.12 Highlights

        I have been trying helix more and more. The subtle changes from vim keybindings are truly painful, but the undo is responsive. I need to come up with a better shortcut list, because typing the vim keybinding is one thing, not knowing how to do it at all in hx is another.