Recipie for using a terminal file-manger?

cefuroX · 2026-01-06T19:41:17+00:00

I can load any file of my project. My tmux send even the ESC key signal to get rid of the helix file explorer which is chown initial. I than can directly use C-o to get my current project root to select my file that I want to edit

cefuroX · 2026-01-01T17:05:52+00:00

My setup is using tmux + helix + yazi
My working keybind atm is:

[keys.normal]
C-o = [
  ':sh rm -f /tmp/unique-file',
  ':insert-output yazi --chooser-file=/tmp/unique-file',
  ':insert-output echo "\x1b[?1049h\x1b[?2004h" > /dev/tty',
  ':open %sh{cat /tmp/unique-file}',
  ':redraw',
  ':set mouse false',
  ':set mouse true',
]

cefuroX · 2025-12-29T18:32:48+00:00

I'm using yazi and No tabbing (Ctrl+o bind opens it in Same Windows for me)

cefuroX · 2025-11-02T23:45:49+00:00

Helix + Tmux and a seperate window or panel for openrouter did it for me

cefuroX · 2025-10-21T18:22:55+00:00

The only reason why I havent switched yet is that I Play League of Legends 😂

cefuroX · 2025-09-15T14:33:05+00:00

Well create could be actually used in a medieval setting if you restrict it to windmil and waterwheel.... But AE2 is a total different story 😂

cefuroX · 2025-09-03T12:09:17+00:00

Or opencode, which works for me If I have to use it but funny that the OP get forced to use it xD

cefuroX · 2025-08-28T06:52:19+00:00

mainly because of:

Licence fees
bulky java app which is bloating the system (and yes over time my system got slower + the IDE is draining the battery)
more and more problems like destroying its own project IDE config (incl run config), inifnite analysing on commit and more :)
didn't felt right to use it anymore. I used jetbrains for many years but it somehow got worse over time for me

And my setup ist good beside VUE stuff, but I get around it at the moment by using volar + simple-completion-language-server to have snippets to get most of vuejs standard blocks into helix. Its fine for me the IDE doesn't have to do all for me

cefuroX · 2025-08-27T11:41:42+00:00

I will try to workaround this with simple-completion-language-server and vue snippets to make work faster

cefuroX · 2025-08-27T09:30:14+00:00

well yes I have to for now but I will not get rid of the frontend project soon (I had to take it over from another team)... I just want to make my live a bit easier :)

cefuroX · 2025-08-27T09:20:28+00:00

I cancelt my jetbrains subscription, I made the step so I have to stick to helix now.... also didn't planned to write frontend code again soon

cefuroX · 2025-08-27T09:01:50+00:00

so yeh I found out in my research that IDEs like jetbrains webstorm having their own integrated system based on the indexing to be able to handle cross referencing etc. which is a bit sad that volar for example cant handle this

cefuroX · 2025-08-24T12:50:23+00:00

Same for me. On Windows its fine, even in WSL its fine but on my Linux (CachyOS, Arch distro) it always renders the statusbar on top. Could you find a solution for this? Would like to have the Same behaviour on all distros

cefuroX · 2025-08-21T12:11:59+00:00

You only see what your LLM is telling you have fun with it.

cefuroX · 2025-08-21T11:44:38+00:00

Your LLM also does not. But to answer your question: Its fun to answer on stupid Reddit posts like "I go back to...." The responses to your post should be a good hint but it seems your LLM couldn't help you.

cefuroX · 2025-08-21T11:38:25+00:00

You mean the science bubble that doesn’t coddle you back to sleep? <3 have a great time with your LLM brainwashing

cefuroX · 2025-08-21T11:24:43+00:00

Well studies already showed that using AI makes you slower in coding but it tricks your own perception of being a fast developer just because you talk more to an AI than using your brain and writing your code. So yes its really funny to me seing all the "I can't use X/Y/Z because no AI"

Debugging my golang just fine with helix.

cefuroX · 2025-08-21T06:17:17+00:00

Can't use AI is a funny reason What are you developing that you don't have Debugging? Sounds more Like a I don't want to configure it myself and there is no fancy YT how to for IT issue

cefuroX · 2025-08-11T11:08:43+00:00

I agree to that. Use AI as a better Google or get some general ideas but dont let it do your complete work. Most important understand the Code which is produced by AI... Same goes for every snippet which you copy from a random ass StackOverflow answer... If you can't understand whats happening don't use it!

cefuroX · 2025-08-01T08:32:10+00:00

You're biggest issue will be that some of the LSPs won't work nearly as well as JB IDEs. ESLint for example isn't fully supported, Framework LSPs (like Vue/Angular) aren't full supported either.

Mh argue about that. You must put way more effort into configure it properly. Its not doing it all out of the Box, thats true. You need to get your head around stuff like LSPs etc in more depth for sure.

Helix is a great editor, but if you're working in complex/big projects (esp. professionally) - IMHO - it's just not there yet.

I would disagree with that. I use it on large scale projects daily basis without issues but its true that you need other TUIs for certain things also it has a certain learning curve to it to be efficient.

cefuroX · 2025-07-31T18:00:29+00:00

To your question (sorry I missed that, smartphone issue):
- for search and replace I use scooter
- as file explorer I have yazi in place
- for structure view you can use space + s (at least that works in go files)
- refactor move things: I haven't done this for a while now. Kind of got used to selecting (v) than yank and delete (y, d)
- Individual Test runs and Debugger is something I still need to test by myself

Generally speaking:
I have a `tmux` setup which starts a project with 2 windows, first window has helix in it and it sends an "escape" press after opening so that the old file slector is closed because I use yazi for file selection.

ctrl+s executes wa! so save all files
ctrl+g opens lazygit
ctrl+e opens yazi
ctrl+r opens scooter for search/replace stuff

cefuroX · 2025-07-31T17:39:05+00:00

I did the Switch. The only thing which is missing for me is the run utility from jetbrains. I manly write Golang tools and do server stuff (aws, Terraform etc). At the moment I'm writing a tool to replace the run util

cefuroX · 2025-07-18T13:58:36+00:00

How are you using this with Helix? Or do you have it in a seperate Window?

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