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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why Helix over (neo)Vim?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Better/simpler experience out of the box. With Helix you install the LSPs for languages you use and you're set with a fully featured editor. Manual configuration is only needed for setting themes, keybinds, and small setting changes. It also feels much faster than a fully configured vim/neovim. Lastly its keybinds are inspired by Vim/Kakoune, but different from both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A better out of the box experience-- fewer plugins required. More discussion here: https://urbanists.social/@markstos/112586854536602496

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool, but is it possible to add vim bindings to Helix? I'm too used to them, I even use them in Emacs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A lot of the bindings are the same, because Helix was inspired in part by Vim.

Helix overall tries to make more consistent vocabulary and "nouns" and "verbs" in the keybindings, so there are some breaking changes.

Someone published a more "vim-like" set of keybindings for Helix: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim

I started with that and then have slowly disabled a number of them as I come to appreciate the Helix defaults, and have realized that some of these vim-bindings are overriding other Helix bindings that I wanted.