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I'm a huge fan of Helix, use it everyday. LSP works out of the box(if you install it with a package manager, otherwise you need to do a bit of config) .My configuration file has 5 lines or so, great defaults. No need for overly complicated configuration, or installing dozens of plugins, etc.. Did I mentioned is crazy fast? Opens in ms, and everything feels very snappy. The only thing I noticed, when I use it with tmux, the colorscheme get reverted, dunno if that is a tmux issue or not. But in general, great editor, thanks to the authors.


You need to enable true-color in your tmux config.


e: Huh, didn't even modify my tmux config and it worked on a restart of the terminal.

Do you have any more information? Having a bit of difficulty figuring this out, found this for neovim [0] but doesn't seem to be working for me.

[0]: https://jdhao.github.io/2018/10/19/tmux_nvim_true_color/


I recently got into neovim (from vscode) and it took me 1.5 weeks to get it to have similar functionality. I really like the vim commands though. What’s your opinion on that compared to helix?


I've switched to helix, from neovim and I can say that I like the commands much more. It feels like they took vim commands and made them much more consistent. Plus the UX is so good, lsp out of the box and all. In neovim I always feelt like my config was missing something but helix feels good without even touching the config. Much recommended.


Helix just has better out of the box experience. Will take you like 5 minutes to setup instead of 1.5 weeks. It is just so much easier to start a model editor if you havent used one before.


What language(s) do you program in?


Mostly Rust and C++, I do some typescript/html web stuff once in a while.




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