Helix
A post-modern modal text editor.
Helix is a terminal-based modal text editor built in Rust, drawing inspiration from Kakoune and Vim while taking a fresh approach. It features multiple selections as a core editing primitive, deep tree-sitter integration for syntax highlighting and code navigation, and built-in language server protocol support with no extra configuration. Unlike Neovim or Vim, Helix ships with modern defaults out of the box, requiring minimal setup to get started.
Helix is a self-contained terminal editor written in Rust that integrates tree-sitter parsing, language server support, and multiple-selection editing natively without plugins or scripting languages.
software developers who prefer terminal-based, modal text editors
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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