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Re:Kakoune Code Editor by mikojan on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:09AM (#29976053)
Have been using this instead of vim for a month now.

It's incredible. No messing with plugins and archaic config files. All works out of the box, including LSP integration. Highly customizable still. Extremely fast, too.

I love "space-k" (Show docs for item under cursor).

The one thing I'm still struggling with is the kakoune-like movements. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but they do feel inferior to vim's.

Re:Kakoune Code Editor by r-zip on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:41AM (#29996006)
I agree it's nice, but Helix's default LSP for Python is unusably slow, having used pyright with Vim/Emacs/VS Code. I tried setting up the pyright language server to work with Helix, but could not get it to work. It will be much more usable once there's better documentation.
Re:Kakoune Code Editor by skavi on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:07AM (#29976793)
what kind of motions are you missing? I prefer helix to default vim, but miss the power of the amazing lightspeed.nvim plugin.
Re:Kakoune Code Editor by archseer on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:06AM (#29978420)
There's been some prototyping on easymotion type jumps: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1162
Re:Kakoune Code Editor by adam_ung on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:03AM (#29976766)
In Vim you can also hit Shift-k to open docs (I usually use it for manual pages).
Re:Kakoune Code Editor by skavi on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:08AM (#29976801)
In this case, space k will open a popup with docs/definitions provided by the language server.