Nehu  May 24, 2024

A super fast, advanced modal editor/IDE, written in #rust and *with* #vim keybindings. How does that sound?

Some years ago, I forked the #helix editor and started adding some VIM keybindings to it. Now, some keybindings and a modeline later, I‘m excited to share #evilhelix with you, looking forward to your feedback!

https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

GitHub - usagi-flow/evil-helix: Bringing the Helix editor to the evil side

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Show threadbrk, a.k.a. @evanrichter

@nehu I’ve been a helix user for a long time now and I’m happy with the kakoune inspired keys, and optimistic about sealing off the core and extending with scheme plugins. But I’m happy to see this project!

I’m curious how multiple cursors work in your fork. I have a feeling motion-action works better in that context

May 24, 2024 at 10:38pmWeb
Show threadNehu  May 24, 2024
@brk Multicursors actually work really well with the Vim keybindings!
That’s because (fortunately), the concept of multiple cursors/selections is built in deeply into the core of Helix, and keybindings are pretty well decoupled from that.
In other words, implementing Vim keybindings does not mean I have to reimplement/modify the multicursor implementation.