I use Helix

Rising gently a learning curve within Helix attracts new practitioners. Coming to vim — or any TUI for that matter — the comfy GUI padding is gone. Mistakes can be made with only a few keystrokes. Within helix the path to proficiency is pleasurable.

Upon hitting that frequently tapped space bar a prompt for more strokes pops up. Want to open a file? Your next stroke will be f.

With vim I remember creating large configuration files, constantly tweaking functionality. The defaults in hx just make common sense to me — maf to "match around function" for example. Everything feels pretty buttery smooth.

I'll be sharing more on this editor soon. Marvel at the multiplex with me as we learn more about useful command line tools.

I love modal editors and resonate a lot with this article. And in other news, Zed just added Elm support — the thing I like about Zed? It implements CRDT and I love to pair program.