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title: "helix-editor/helix: A post-modern modal text editor."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/helix-editor-helix-a-post-modern-modal-text-editor--wr9lmxpr3
source_url: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
type: article
source: "Pointer"
published: 2022-04-05T17:40:39.539Z
updated: 2022-04-05T17:40:39.540Z
tags: ["apple"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 20
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# helix-editor/helix: A post-modern modal text editor.

**[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 2 min read · 20 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Helix is a kakoune / neovim inspired editor, written in Rust. Features include Vim-like modal editing, built-in language server support, and code editing via tree-sitter. It's a terminal-based editor first, but I'd like to explore a custom renderer (similar to emacs)

## Full article

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**@raguay** · 0 upvotes

> nice editor

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