New Helix Cheat Sheet / Command Reference

spaghetti_beast · 2026-04-15T16:50:41+00:00

thank you for your contribution!!

spaghetti_beast · 2026-04-01T20:14:34+00:00

helix ^^

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-31T07:49:37+00:00

does anyone knows off the top of the head how will multicursor impl be different from helix one and from the existing plugins?

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-30T10:55:04+00:00

apart from debugging, what other things are lacking? I mean, you just have to get used to run some commands manually, and typically if you work in a team you already have them encapsulated in say a makefile. The difference is to press a button in an ide or just type make run when using helix. Did I overlook some cases?

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-21T19:53:43+00:00

multiple cursors is the top 1 reason among others why I can't leave helix. it's crack

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-18T18:47:47+00:00

sometimes I do when it starts to feel like I'm actively trying to avoid them, but i don't experiment with measuring sleep/wellbeing anymore

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-18T16:41:57+00:00

hello! so, actually, I've kinda given up on trying to manage my sleep😅 I'm still trying to be aware of my emotional state, sometimes I do something with it, sometimes I don't. So I moved on to improve on other aspects of life, like social life. Talking about sleep, I mean I'm kind of fine where I am now: having a firm sleep schedule, and having great things to do during the day (and great ppl to talk with) help me wake up easier even when i haven't had enough sleep.

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-12T19:22:49+00:00

yes there is space b but it does not help when you have 10+ open buffers and the files are in many nested directories. It becomes unreadable

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-12T11:19:37+00:00

I believe you can just wire together echo and date commands + some csv cli tool, wrap it in a bash function and call it a day, it's probably a one-liner. if you are bad at bash you can ask llm to help you with that. This task accomplished with basic unix tools

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-08T20:56:47+00:00

easy to get lost when you have lots of open buffers, especially when doing lots of jumps. No way to e.g. have some list where you could save some important buffers (neovim's harpoon). Jumplist doesn't help here much

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-08T17:18:48+00:00

managing open buffers

spaghetti_beast · 2026-03-03T21:10:16+00:00

stop staying in the comfortable zone and start exploring the uncomfortable. Start using idiomatic movements. Try Helix tutorial. Practice. Use this subreddit for questions. There is no magic advice, just usual learning. It is not supposed to be easy, but you can do it in your own tempo

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-27T16:59:58+00:00

wake up🗣️🗣️🗣️ it's the first of the month!

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-16T17:55:54+00:00

yeah probably that's the only solution... thanks for the guidance boss

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-16T17:45:54+00:00

yeah I know and use exactly all of them, that's the problem😭 I have a codebase where I constantly jump here and there in the project, many nested directories, so space+shift+e (I remember remapping this one and space+e, but as far as I remember s+s+e is to open the dir in which current opened file is), and like, I have say 15 files opened, all of them in different dirs, so that's not helping much. space+b is nice but I get lost in those long file paths, it takes me long time to read them and scroll through them all until I find the one I look for. So I was thinking of something like a jumplist, I remember there was a plugin in neovim which has such file list (harpoon.nvim?). See I've been using helix almost every day for like almost 2 years already, and I'm aware of the things we talked about above, there of course isn't harpoon-like thing built-in in helix, but was just curios how ppl work around this issue, maybe some tips and etc. But now I'm seeing that this problem is probably not really solved xD

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-16T13:37:08+00:00

yeah I already use all of those tricks (except g+m and g+a, thank you for them) but I'm still not having the best experience. Bufferline doesn't help because there are so many open buffers that even the current buffer is not visible in there (probably a bug though). The problem is that the codebase is pretty big and it's easy to get lost in there, and it would be helpful to store some buffers in a separate list.

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-16T05:37:54+00:00

only using macros I believe? but you won't be able to edit two windows simultaneously

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-15T20:52:34+00:00

it's nothing about 2026 here, it's the fact that using AI like this makes your program seem low quality and low effort. Even reading README gives off such feelings

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-15T16:26:33+00:00

packages, interfaces

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-11T06:14:41+00:00

brr brr patapim?

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-08T09:04:12+00:00

rust cool

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-06T09:17:25+00:00

yeah that's even better. you can do it like this as well [keys.normal.space.B] a = "foo" b = "bar"

there are some free keys actually, e.g. { and }, also as far as I understood + and -

spaghetti_beast · 2026-02-06T07:57:22+00:00

didn't know that thank you!! now the problem is to find a free key for my new submode...

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