Helix 🧬 the Rust Powered Development Environment

A quick tour of the Helix text editor / development environment, which is written in Rust. It's very similar to vim, but removes a substantial amount of configuration complexity and takes a slightly different approach with ergonomics.

00:00 Helix Intro
01:10 Themes
01:30 Modes
01:42 Opening A File
02:32 Normal, Insert and Visual Modes
03:25 Syntax Highlighting
03:35 Moving Around
03:50 Changing Key Bindings
04:24 Helix Mindset (highlight first)
05:35 Visual Mode
05:58 Select Mode
06:25 t and f Motions
07:07 Yanking (copying) and Pasting
07:54 Language-Aware Motions
08:42 Space Mode
10:12 Goto Mode
11:11 R Motion
11:50 Registers
12:29 Conclusion

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