what's your workflow like for situations where you need to poke around in an unfamiliar directory and open files in helix?

I mainly use ranger, or some conveniece scripts I've built around ripgrep, ripgrep replace and fd. When i find the file i want I either open it directly to do a small chance or use the fuzzy search in my long running session to open the file.

The only thing I haven't nailed yet is creating files in deeply nested directories.

In general most of the things I used in nvim have now moved back to the terminal which has its pros and cons.

you could try to use ranger or a similar terminal filemanager. it's basically like nvimtree or nerdtree

I use broot :)

There are a lot of nice tui s for this, but saidly helix does not support opening new files into an existing session :(

this is the big problem. I hope there's a fix for it someday.

Open the root in helix, use the fuzzy file finder (space-f) for looking up by name path, or global search (space-/) for finding by content.

I also use Helix full time, I really like it, especially the multi cursor features. I was a neovim user before, but I did not enjoy configuring my editor all the time. I like Helix config defaults, LSP works out of the box, the commands are a bit longer to type, but more logical. I cannot work without a file tree, I settled with the tree explorer fork[1] and I'm happy with it.

[1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5768

Yeah I've considered it. For now ranger in a pop up term works nice enough for me. Ranger is a bit slow so I should move to lf or some other alternative.

Check out joshuto - https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto

also written in Rust

so is yazi ;) https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi

How long did it take you to reverse your movement->action muscle memory?