[adamkf]

I gave Helix a try the other day and really enjoyed the "feel" of things. I'm also generally impressed with their philosophy / approach, after having spent way too much time tuning my Neovim configuration. However, I ran into several blockers for it being my daily driver, I thought I'd share them:

1. It's generally janky whenever the language server is slow, in ways that Neovim is not. The most visible one of these is that completion does not take into account the characters that were typed between when the completion request started and when the completion was selected. For example, if I type "abc", and the LSP suggests "abcdef" after having only observed the "a" keystroke, Helix will end up with "abcdefbc" as the final output. This is annoying.

2. The posted directions (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/External-binary-f...) for configuring prettier didn't work, there are no error messages visible in any logs. I haven't had the bandwidth to dig into this yet.

3. Helix doesn't detect the correct root for my language servers in my environment, and it doesn't seem to have any way to override the detected root. This means that have to start the editor in the directory that I intend to use as the root. This gets really problematic when I'm working across several languages.

[archseer]

1) there's a pull request that fixes this but needs a bit of polish (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1819)

3) There's also a discussion for this, we hoped to include it in this release but it's instead going to be in the next cycle (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4439)

[jonas-w]

Hey, thanks for creating helix. IMO it is a big improvement to neovim and it is so much easier to get started with it. I was really sceptical at first, but its now my main editor.

FYI your github link in your opencollective [0] profile seems to be wrong?

[0] https://opencollective.com/blaz-hrastnik

[archseer]

Thanks for the kind words! Fixed the link :)