A post-modern modal text editor. https://helix-editor.com
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book Rewrite command line parsing, add flags and expansions (#12527) 2025-02-26 19:50:15 -06:00
contrib Fix Bash completion space regression (#12828) 2025-02-10 10:42:45 -06:00
docs Document installation of rust-analyzer via rustup (#12618) 2025-02-01 19:43:20 -06:00
helix-core Improve %% escaping error message (#13018) 2025-03-04 10:03:11 -06:00
helix-dap DAP: Drain pending requests on recv failure 2025-02-04 09:09:54 -05:00
helix-event Migrate helix-event to foldhash 2025-02-17 17:35:00 -05:00
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helix-term Improve %% escaping error message (#13018) 2025-03-04 10:03:11 -06:00
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Helix

Build status GitHub Release Documentation GitHub contributors Matrix Space

Screenshot

A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.

The editing model is very heavily based on Kakoune; during development I found myself agreeing with most of Kakoune's design decisions.

For more information, see the website or documentation.

All shortcuts/keymaps can be found in the documentation on the website.

Troubleshooting

Features

  • Vim-like modal editing
  • Multiple selections
  • Built-in language server support
  • Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter

Although it's primarily a terminal-based editor, I am interested in exploring a custom renderer (similar to Emacs) using wgpu or skulpin.

Note: Only certain languages have indentation definitions at the moment. Check runtime/queries/<lang>/ for indents.scm.

Installation

Installation documentation.

Packaging status

Contributing

Contributing guidelines can be found here.

Getting help

Your question might already be answered on the FAQ.

Discuss the project on the community Matrix Space (make sure to join #helix-editor:matrix.org if you're on a client that doesn't support Matrix Spaces yet).

Credits

Thanks to @jakenvac for designing the logo!