ksp [il/lui]Zed on Linux is out!
markstosAnyone care to compare this with Helix?
Zed has a lot more features and is GUI-based. Helix is more focused and is CLI-based. I think a more direct comparison would be with VSCode(ium).
Why Helix over (neo)Vim?
Better/simpler experience out of the box. With Helix you install the LSPs for languages you use and you’re set with a fully featured editor. Manual configuration is only needed for setting themes, keybinds, and small setting changes. It also feels much faster than a fully configured vim/neovim. Lastly its keybinds are inspired by Vim/Kakoune, but different from both.
A better out of the box experience-- fewer plugins required. More discussion here:
urbanists.social/@markstos/112586854536602496
Mark Stosberg (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I previously posted an analysis of my Neovim plugins. I had 34 and all but about 4 were replaced by the out of the box #HelixEditor functionality. It’s not that I want extreme or exotic configuration, but that expectations have been raised for what’s considered basic functionality. Fuzzy finders, LSP language enabled, git integration all seem like things that shouldn’t require plugins now.
Cool, but is it possible to add vim bindings to Helix? I’m too used to them, I even use them in Emacs.
A lot of the bindings are the same, because Helix was inspired in part by Vim.
Helix overall tries to make more consistent vocabulary and “nouns” and “verbs” in the keybindings, so there are some breaking changes.
Someone published a more “vim-like” set of keybindings for Helix: github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim
I started with that and then have slowly disabled a number of them as I come to appreciate the Helix defaults, and have realized that some of these vim-bindings are overriding other Helix bindings that I wanted.
