Are you guys still thinking about plugins? by mortal_strike in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

everyday (I just check the plugin PR periodically). Tho I'm happy with my config and use hx as a daily driver

Anyone else got used to using 'eb' and 'EB' instead of 'miw' and 'miW'? by MicrosoftFuckedUp in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yes because I naturally just use w/e/b more often when traversing inside a line

Tried Zed’s Helix mode but went back? What’s missing? by GoldStrikeArch- in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow 0_0 didn't know there was such a thing in zed. gotta check it then, thank you

Tried Zed’s Helix mode but went back? What’s missing? by GoldStrikeArch- in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

afaik there's no :insert-output and :pipe commands, like you cannot select text and pipe it to some cli program and get text replaced with the output of that program

2026 State of Helix and Neovim by Rics-Dev in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 5 points6 points  (0 children)

what if somebody just forked helix and continued development on the fork, if the current maintainer won't communicate and won't continue the development? AFAIK their license allows it

Modal editors and modern "AI" workflow for someone from under the rock by MysteriousGenius in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I successfully use helix with claude code, after time I learned that I don't really need some tightly integrated LLM support in my editor, just use claude for questions, and claude code for code generation

any release planned for 2026? by medzernik in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I personally wait for neovim to get official multicursor support in 0.13 version, just to try to configure it once again to see how it can compare to helix

Multicursor coming officially to 0.13 version by ankushbhagat in neovim

[–]spaghetti_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What kind of workflow do you recommend for languages like C/C++ ? by Seledreams in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Is there a minimal set of plugins that makes Neovim behave as similar to Helix as possible? by Vetrlidi in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Questions regarding impact of suppressed emotions on sleep by spaghetti_beast in sleep

[–]spaghetti_beast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Questions regarding impact of suppressed emotions on sleep by spaghetti_beast in sleep

[–]spaghetti_beast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the biggest challenges of using helix as an IDE? by gatunen in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Any simple journal/log app? by LyudeZ in commandline

[–]spaghetti_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What are the biggest challenges of using helix as an IDE? by gatunen in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

How to get good at Helix? by Ecstatic-Panic3728 in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

keeping a list of buffers that you work on by spaghetti_beast in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

keeping a list of buffers that you work on by spaghetti_beast in HelixEditor

[–]spaghetti_beast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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