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2025-04-10 Update: I tried Helix for a few days, and like it, but miss features from Vim and want something more complete. Maybe I'll try to get LSP and completion working in Vim or give NeoVim a shot!

Helix is a Vim and Kakoune inspired editor. It follows Kakoune's philosophy of multiple selections and redesigned keybindings, but brings back Vim's visual mode. It is written in Rust and tries to include what most users would include through Vim plugins, e.g. tree-sitter and language server support (LSP). It doesn't currently have plugin support.

I'm writing this post in Helix. It's nice to have more of the "batteries-included" features like tiling window support and a file manager. I haven't figured out the tree-sitter/LSP integration yet.

A few things are missing, like spell checking (maybe can use a language server?) There does seem to be Git support. It's a nice little colored line between the line numbers and the text. It doesn't work the same as Vim-Fugitive, though, as it only shows the diff from HEAD, not from staged.