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About

Helix Editor is a powerful, modern text editor designed for developers seeking a fast, customizable, and efficient editing experience. Built with a focus on productivity, Helix uses a modal editing style inspired by Vim, which allows users to navigate, select, and manipulate text seamlessly through intuitive keyboard shortcuts. It offers a robust set of features including syntax highlighting, multi-caret editing, and support for languages like Rust, Python, and JavaScript. Helix also integrates with the Tree-sitter parsing library for precise syntax-aware editing, making it easier to work with complex code structures. With a minimal interface and a strong focus on performance, Helix Editor provides an ideal environment for programmers who prioritize speed and flexibility in their development workflow.

About

API is first-class, discoverable, versioned, documented. MessagePack structured communication enables extensions in any language. Remote plugins run as co-processes, safely and asynchronously. GUIs, IDEs, web browsers can, embed Neovim as an editor or script host. Works the same everywhere, one build-type, one command. Modern terminal features such as cursor styling, focus events, bracketed paste. Built-in terminal emulator and strong defaults. Fully compatible with Vim's editing model and Vimscript v1. Start with :help nvim-from-vim if you already use Vim. The current stable release version is 0.5 (RSS). See the roadmap for progress and plans. With 30% less source-code than Vim, the vision of Neovim is to enable new applications without compromising Vim's traditional roles. Lua is built-in, but Vimscript is supported with the most advanced Vimscript engine in the world (featuring an AST-producing parser).

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers

Audience

Content creators, programmers, and developers searching for a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor to write and edit text files

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Helix Editor is free and open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I used it to develop Java and c++. I loved the speed and flexibility and the fact that no mouse is needed and you can have a very fast and efficient workflow using the keyboard with easy to remember neumonic s (like SF to search files) rather than holding down lots of different modifiers that are hard to remember. The editor is the focus and temporary popups are used for searching for things, call hierarchy, errors etc so you aren't rearranging splitter positions all the time. The errors were shown instantly as I typed and I could even launch my application when while it had compile errors and my refactoring was not finished. Much better than the workflow in intellij for example.

Cons

  • There is some investment time needed to learn it initially but the power and flexibility it gives you is worth it in the end.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Helix Editor
helix-editor.com

Company Information

Neovim
neovim.io

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Integrations

CSS
JavaScript
Lua
Python
Racket
TypeScript
Ada
Elixir
Git
GitLab Duo
GraphQL
Haskell
Nim
PowerShell
Refact.ai
Ruby
SQL
Svelte
Vim
Zig
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