Julia Evansnotes on switching to Helix from vim https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/notes-on-switching-to-helix-from-vim/
Guido Kollerie@b0rk As an alternative to :reflow you could consider shelling out to par. http://www.nicemice.net/par/ Not sure though if it covers all your formatting needs.
@b0rk I played with par and Helix and unfortunately it couldn't deal with bullet and numbered lists (think Vim's :set fo+=n). As I write mostly in Markdown I finally settled on this Helix config:
[keys.normal]
"=" = ":pipe pandoc -f markdown -t markdown --wrap=auto --columns=72
So I can write regular text files, commit messages, etc and select all using % and then press = to have it nicely formatted. There are probably better ways, but this works for me.