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[–] Gacrux@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (12 children)

is there not a single other person who uses helix?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I gave it serious consideration when the death of Atom was announced and I was unsure where to move on to.

Looks like in the meantime a lot has been done (as far as I remember, TreeSitter and LSP weren't built in back then...? Not sure though), but the lack of a plugin system is still killing it for me.

TBH it looks like it has 75% of the features you want from a codeditor, which is much more than the use-case for Nano, but no way to go the remaining 25% of the way.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the death of Atom

I'm still in mourning.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was pretty great, wasn't it?

Although I must say. I eventually landed on neovim. Steep, steep learning curve, but now I would not switch back again.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I would look at that, but I bounced off VIM hard, so probably not for me.

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