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by __MatrixMan__ 759 days ago
10x is quite a claim.

Anyhow helix is nice for most of the reasons that neovim is, and also because you spend more time coding and less time fiddling with your setup.

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"Most" by range, not by value, since plugins is the biggest reason, and they don't exist in helix
Well yes, but that's the point.

I think it's analogous to zsh/fish, either you think that customizing is fun and you want to spend time doing it, or you want a nice set of features enabled by default and a minimal config footprint. Can't have both.

You can have both, it's called "good defaults", then you don't need to customize anything if you don't like customizing. But you can.

Also, helix doesn't have minimal config, it has dozens of various options even before potentially hundreds of keybindings, so you can get buried there "for fun" just like in vim