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by emmanueloga_ 615 days ago
Helix, the editor? How would you pitch it?

Zellij looks powerful but also a bit too complex, following the "kitchen sink" school of design :-). No biggie but its name is too close to IntelliJ imho. What kind of workflow do you use with it?

I used tmux a bit back in the day, but these days I feel like good old tabs and app windows cover my needs. When I want to multiplex processes in a single window, I reach for Overmind. [1]

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1: https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind
2 comments
stavros 614 days ago
I don't know what you find complex about Zellij, as I haven't used it extensively, but the few times I've used it, the UI was eminently self-describing, I managed to do everything I've needed to do within a minute of first launching it.

Is there more advanced stuff that's more complex that I just haven't seen?

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emmanueloga_ 614 days ago
> Is there more advanced stuff that's more complex that I just haven't seen?

Yes? I mean, it even has a system to install plugins made with WASM, from what I saw in the docs. I guess you could just use the basics and be okay with it.

For me, after years of tinkering with apps like Vim, Emacs, and AwesomeWM [1], I've developed a bit of PTSD over the amount of time these kinds of tools can take to configure and master [2]. Zellij feels like it belongs in this category of tools, and perhaps I'm overreacting or flinching. :-)

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1: https://awesomewm.org/

2: I've benefitted a lot from being able to use vim key bindings with extensions in apps like VS Code and emacs key bindings on places and I'm somewhat glad I spent the time, though.

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stavros 614 days ago
Those things are optional, though. You can just use the basics and ignore the rest.
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Lyngbakr 615 days ago 

    > Helix, the editor? How would you pitch it?
Not the OP, but Helix is a minimal fuss modal editor with sensible defaults. My config is maybe five lines? I say "maybe" because I haven't looked at it I first wrote it. And I think I'd probably be just fine with no config.
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imjonse 615 days ago
Sensible defaults but also out of the box features you only get in vim by finding and configuring external plugins (fuzzy file picker, LSP integration, multi-cursor editing, inline keymapping help).

Cons: no session save, good Helix keybindings not available in other tools so confusing to switch between vim/hx mental models when in colab/vscode, no AI-assistants since no plugin system yet.

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