Awesome Helix 🧬

An Awesome list of resources about the Helix editor such as tools, blogs, articles and videos.

Hoping to keep this list updated as much as possible, any new links through PRs are appreciated.

Contents

• Websites
• Posts
• Videos
• Configs
• Misc

Websites

• Official Website
• Github
• Reddit
• Matrix

Posts

• Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
• Helix Editor – 90% of Neovim With Kakoune
• Moving from Vim to Helix
• Configure Helix to use ElixirLS
• A Walkthrough on Helix — A Post-Modern Modal Text Editor
• HackerNews post
• Helix: A Terminal Based Text Editor for Power Linux Users
• Helix Editor – 90% of Neovim With Kakoune
• Switching to Helix: My Experience and Tips
• Helix editor with multiple lsp's for one language
• Note talking with Helix, Tp-Note and LanguageTool
• Turning Helix into an IDE with the help of WezTerm and CLI tools
• Neovim vs Helix: Which is the best Vi/Vim style modal editor?

Videos

• Helix: an editor hopping story (NeovimConf 2022 Talk)
• Helix 🧬 the Rust Powered Development Environment
• Taking a look at the Helix editor (Nov 5th, 2022)
• Helix Text Editor: Better than Neovim?
• A very brief overview of the helix modal text editor
• helixcasts
• Walking through my dev setup
• Helix overview, with Rust examples

Luke Pighetti Videos

• Helix – Getting Dangerous
• Helix – Getting More Dangerous (Part 2)
• Helix – Bridging the IDE gap with CLI tools
• Helix - Release 22.12 (GIT GUTTERS!)
• 0 to LSP : Helix RC From Scratch
• Helix Q&A
• Helix – Diagnostics
• Helix – clean up your fuzzy finder!
• Helix – tree file picker... TODAY?!?
• Helix & Friends: slides
• Helix – buffers and windows
• Helix & marksman! (why I don't use Obsidian)
• Helix – jump around
• Helix – find any command or keybinding

Configs

• Sample configs
• A Vim-like configuration for Helix
• Obedi Ferreira
• Jackson Frankland
• Alex
• Vitor Melo
• Arthur Deierlein - For setting up handlebars and Ember
• helix-editor-config-toml - A Helix editor configuration (config.toml) for new users.
• Andrew Prentice
• Howard Chen
• Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
• Seth Messer
• Hien Pham
• Kangwook Lee
• Bart Dorsey
• Gian Lu
• Benoît Cortier
• Robert

Misc

• Helix GPT - Code completion LSP for Helix
• Helix Editor Playground
• Helix Shortcut Quiz
• Helix + ZK customized interop
• Helix exec: run command on current file with helix using zellij
• File tree explorer alternative for Helix Editor in i3
• Code snippets in your terminal
• Dance - Helix - Visual Studio Code extension for Helix