[maxxk]

I test-drived helix for a couple of months, and it is really fast. My major pain points compared to Neovim:

- lack of global search (like ripgrep integration) and something like dumb-jump/anyjump — it's faster and less resource-intensive than running LSP

- I encountered a couple of panics losing my unsaved changes after 24.03 update, most recently yesterday. Looks related to this bug: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/3501

I can live with no global search, but not with data loss. Probably will stop using it for now.

[heliostatic]

> jump

They added jumps about 6 months ago: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8875

I haven't experienced data loss, but I agree that's a blocker for regular use.

[frankjr]

> They added jumps about 6 months ago

That's not that kind of jump the OP is talking about. dumb-jump/anyjump are plugins which allow you to jump to definition / declaration etc. without having any kind of language server running or having preprocessed the source code. They work by essentially grepping through the source code on the fly with some language specific smartness on top to make it work better.

[frankjr]

> lack of global search

<space> + /

[maxxk]

Thanks! I'll correct myself: lack of interactive global search, discussed here: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/196

Maybe it's kind of niche feature, but that's how I navigate my code, and that's what would work even greater with helix performance.