Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust

Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by e12e on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:56AM (#33149575)

> Regrettably, Helix has inherited Vim's worst design flaw, namely being unusable with non-English keyboard layouts

How so? I find the default helix shorcuts to be generally quite close to "ascii text input" - that is: ctrl, shift, alt, a-z and regular punctation?

FWIW I work on a Norwegian layout on a Mac, which is rather horrible for programming and shell use (option-7 for pipe, shift-option-k+space for tilde (!?), shift-option-7 for backslash, shift/option/alt + 8,9 for brackets ...).

I do miss "leader" from vim/neovim - and autocompletion from buffer (when there is no language support, like configuration files).

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by Liquid_Fire on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:58AM (#33153031)

> How so? I find the default helix shorcuts to be generally quite close to "ascii text input" - that is: ctrl, shift, alt, a-z and regular punctation?

Try it with a non-Latin script language. It's borderline unusable.

Nothing works in Normal mode. You have to manually switch back to English any time you switch to Normal mode and back to the other language in Insert/Replace mode, or when typing parameters to things like :s.

No other editor requires you to switch language back and forth just to use the editor's commands.

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