[dzsekijo]

I've set up myself once to learn Helix. First there was Kakoune that sounded exciting with its new modal model, but what had me wanting to really give Helix a go, beyond being exciting, was that it advertised itself "batteries included". It promised to deliver all the cool things programmers' editors do recently.

But then I stopped abruptly when realized Helix misses a key feature of Vim: swap files. I can just start editing and have not have to worry about losing my work, may whichever of computer panic, computer running off charge, environment (desktop env or tmux) crash, etc. occur.

So edit semantics is cool, but fundamentals like recovery should be got right before being a serious contender.

(I did a quick search to see if there is any news on this front, but what I found is all about "recovery hooks for panic", which is far more less than what's needed - it's about an emergency saving of the work if something goes awry with the editor. I need to be protected from loss if something goes awry with the environment too...)

[wonger_]

Does anyone else use swap files? Personally, I find them annoying. Saving every time I leave insert mode is my preferred alternative: `autocmd! InsertLeave * silent! update`

Perhaps helix has something similar?

[poincaredisk]

Interesting how every use case is different. I personally hate swap files (they pollute directories and cause annoying warnings when opening the same file two times).