Switching from Vim to Helix: A 3-Month Experience Review
By
chmaynard
The bagel they save for the regulars. Don't skim, savour.
Summary
The author shares their experience switching from Vim to Helix text editor after three months of use. They were motivated by the difficulty of setting up language servers in Vim/Neovim and found Helix's built-in language server support to be a major advantage. The article discusses the benefits of Helix's out-of-the-box functionality, its modal editing approach similar to Vim, and the author's positive experience with the transition despite some initial learning curve.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI think what motivated me to try Helix is that I've been trying to get a working language server setup and getting a setup that feels good in Vim or Neovim just felt like too much work.
I love using fish, and how I love that I don't have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor.
After using Vim/Neovim for years, switching to Helix felt like a breath of fresh air in terms of setup complexity.
The built-in language server support was the main draw for me - it just works out of the box without extensive configuration.
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