• nflamel@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Time will tell for sure, but helix is looking really good and once they have support for plugins I’m rather sure it will be a very, very powerful editor.

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        I don’t think helix will ever catch up to a lot of vims lesser know features of which there are a lot. I think that’s by design as well, I think that helix wants to have a smaller surface area than vim and for a lot of people that will be the right choice. I personaly use ex-commands for example, or the quickfixlist fairly often so for me I have a hard time imagining helix not feeling like a step down power-wise (as nice as multiple cursors are).

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          4 months ago

          VSCode has way more features than Vim. Including the ability to run Vim inside the IDE. Or Emacs.

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            Sais no-one that knows vim, thou it have a vi-like mode that is missing most advanced vi-trixs.