Was looking into Helix after recently starting to feel the urge to switch things up a little from vscode and not entirely enjoying trying to use neovim as almost an IDE. I remember enough keybinds to do basic editing, but not enough to smoothly flow between other modes/buffers without having to consult documentation. Didn't quite feel like Helix was what I was looking for either, in part due to the apparent lack of Copilot support(?) and lack of plugin support in general.

I'm finding that spacemacs seems a bit easier to use, striking a nice balance between vim style editing and emacs style everything else, making it easy to slowly build up memory instead of overwhelming me with keybinds and configuration details.

A lot of the time I find myself highlighting things in NeoVim before I delete/copy them. Probably from years of interacting with text in GUI applications, it just feels more natural. I've heard about Helix's approach before and it seems like it would fit well for me, but I can never bring myself to switch. Probably a little sunk cost fallacy because of how much I put into learning NeoVim, and a little about being able to customize it. I don't do a lot, but I like what I've done, and more importantly I like that I have the options.

I am a long-time vim user and tried out helix. In many ways it's great but the fact that there was (at that time) no "reflow text" function made it just completely unusable for me for basic text-editing outside of code.

If that's been added I'd take another look.

There are still things in (neo)vim that I miss, even a year or so later (particularly persistent undo files), but helix's startup time is so much faster (and LSP integration so good), I hardly use anything else.

I love the batteries-included nature of Helix. Especially for people with no prior experience with modal editors, it has a much nicer learning curve compared to vim.

Happy Helix Editor user here! My favourite text editor

I now just use micro and be done with everything else.

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