In Check out Helix

Helix is a “post-modern” (Neovim being the “modern” option - it is meant as a joke) vi-like (though closer perhaps to Kakoune) modal editor.

• Written in Rust. It’s been claimed it is noticeably faster than Neovim.
• OpenCollective funding source
• Plugin support coming soon, BUT most functionality is built-in (including e.g. Fuzzy file find, LSP/treesitter support, language primitives for text selection/manipulation, multi-cursor support [probably the biggest thing I miss when using neovim vs vscode/others - there is a neovim plugin I have not tried])
• Nice toml configuration method

It does do things a bit backwards from vim (e.g. instead of action-object, it does object-action, e.g. “dw” -> delete, word; “wd” -> word, delete, BUT, there is a Steel plugin to make things very much like using vim instead. The keybinding changes can be done in the toml config. Some find however that the object first makes things clearer, as the selection you are acting upon is show while you are selecting it.

ⓘ Written 2026-07-02 19:47:22

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