The Helix Text Editor

1. helix

   1 472 41,910 9.8 Rust

   A post-modern modal text editor.

   

   How strange that the article never links directly to the Helix editor. I usually immediately open the homepage of whatever a blog post is talking about as a background tab to be able to click back and forth, or to be able to immediately figure out what the thing being talked about is, but no luck here, except for some decoys (like the "helix" link next to the title which is just the tag "helix" which sends you to a page with all the posts tagged with "helix", which happens to just be this one post).

   I of course quickly just googled it myself and found the page, and so afterward I went to the source of the blog post and searched for the URL to confirm that it wasn't actually linked to anywhere. Turns out that about three quarters of the way down, in the "Key Bindings" section, there is a link to the Helix keymappings documentation page, which appears to be the closest thing to a direct homepage link.

   Anyways, no nefarious intent being implied of course, I just found it sort of interesting. I am pretty certain it just got accidentally left out, or maybe the project didn't have a homepage back in December of 2024 when this was originally written? Although the github page isn't directly linked either (only one specific issue in the github tracker).

   Oh, and here's a link to their page: https://helix-editor.com/

   And github page: https://github.com/helix-editor/

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. zed

   2 239 71,695 10.0 Rust

   Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

   

4. evil-helix

   3 8 1,163 9.8 Rust

   Bringing the Helix editor to the evil side

   

   I tried to use helix as a vim user, but couldn't get used to the key binds. However I recently found evil-helix, and it's a joy. https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

5. helix-config

   4 2 103 7.8 Scheme

   

   To send things to the repl, it uses eval-buffer from the helix-ext.scm file.

   The integration and cuatomizability is for aure not that of Emacs yet, but with the plugin system soon to be merged, we can hope to have a proper REPL and Parinfer implementation!

   https://github.com/mattwparas/helix-config

6. dotfiles

   5 1 34 5.4 Shell

   my hidden config files (by jzelinskie)

   

   I don't think my config works anymore, but this is the balance I struck when I used neovim: https://github.com/jzelinskie/dotfiles/blob/426768c61078a77c...

   I'd explicitly configure which servers were triggered which filetypes (aka autocmd and when I first started doing this, the binding for autocmd didn't even exist in lua yet) and have to bind lsp functions to keybindings across languages. FWIW, I have no idea what I would've done in vimscript, lua is a godsend with tables, loops, and lambdas.

   But the juxtaposition was that Helix ships `languages.toml` that includes all of this already out of the box. You can override it, if you want, but actually all I wanted was cohesive keybindings for basic LSP functions.

7. iwe

   6 3 485 9.1 Rust

   LSP for Markdown notes taking

   

   You could try your luck with Iwe, it's an lsp server for notes and markdown: https://github.com/iwe-org/iwe/

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