[imjonse]

A plugin system is much less of an issue when Helix has built-in functionality for most of what comes as plugins in Vim. That said integration with git or with code assistants/chat is something that is probably better done via plugins hence it is still on the roadmap.

But in my experience of ~10 months of Helix vs +20 years of Vim, the former is a much more pleasant and hassle-free experience, mostly because of it offering autocompletion, matching, fuzzy file picker, multiple cursors, LSP and go to definition, and other features with no or minimal configuration and the guarantee of stability and support (something that can not always be said when picking among the competing Vim plugins for same)

[petre]

I tried to use it for multicursor editing which I tried to enable in Vim via plugins and it sucked, but being a console editor didn't help much. So I'm still using vi/vim for console editing because it's installed everywhere.

[imjonse]

My first multicursor experience is with Helix (it goes to show what it means to have it built in instead of trying to find plugins for it) so it may be unsatisfactory for people who have used similar functionality in other editors. I use it in a very basic way - like change similar things on related lines - but it is a nice enough feature for me to mention it as part of the batteries included Helix experience. My main issue now that I am using Helix locally is that its keybindings are not well supported in other places I occasionally work (VSCode, Google Colab) and I keep having to mentally switch between vi/hx bindings. Not a hindrance enough to go back to vim though.

[ctenb]

You may want to check helix.vim. it's a vim script that emulates helix