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WIP: The proper Spellbook integration patch
Prior integration patches went about it in the most simple and direct
way, which is unfortunately completely different than how it _should_
look. Some bad prior art:

* Checking was done during each render only on the current viewport
* Dictionary loading was hard-coded and done during `Editor::new`
* The UX for suggestions was not hooked into code actions
* Same for "Add {word} to dictionary"

Ultimately this is still very unbaked. Big parts still to do:

* Run a tree-sitter query to discover parts of the document that need to
  be checked. Look at the queries used in Codebook - I believe we want
  to follow that strategy at least partially. It uses different captures
  to control the strategy used to parse the captured content. (For
  example capturing strings)
* Support multiple dictionaries at once. Not totally sure what this
  looks like yet, other than `dictionaries.iter().any(..)`.
* Figure out how many configuration levers we need. Again, Codebook is
  likely to be good inspiration here.
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book Feat: inlay hint length limit (#13742) 2025-06-13 11:09:21 -05:00
contrib feat: add ConsoleOnly to desktop entry categories (#13236) 2025-03-31 09:28:50 -05:00
docs fix: typos (#13505) 2025-05-10 10:36:17 -05:00
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helix-dap Reuse content buffer in JSONRPC recv for LSP and DAP 2025-06-06 10:19:33 -04:00
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helix-lsp Add generic Range and Diagnostic types in helix-view 2025-06-19 12:13:23 -04:00
helix-lsp-types Add generic Range and Diagnostic types in helix-view 2025-06-19 12:13:23 -04:00
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helix-tui Fix prompt truncation for non-ASCII lines 2025-06-19 10:44:06 -04:00
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README.md

Helix

Build status GitHub Release Documentation GitHub contributors Matrix Space

Screenshot

A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.

The editing model is very heavily based on Kakoune; during development I found myself agreeing with most of Kakoune's design decisions.

For more information, see the website or documentation.

All shortcuts/keymaps can be found in the documentation on the website.

Troubleshooting

Features

  • Vim-like modal editing
  • Multiple selections
  • Built-in language server support
  • Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter

Although it's primarily a terminal-based editor, I am interested in exploring a custom renderer (similar to Emacs) using wgpu or skulpin.

Note: Only certain languages have indentation definitions at the moment. Check runtime/queries/<lang>/ for indents.scm.

Installation

Installation documentation.

Packaging status

Contributing

Contributing guidelines can be found here.

Getting help

Your question might already be answered on the FAQ.

Discuss the project on the community Matrix Space (make sure to join #helix-editor:matrix.org if you're on a client that doesn't support Matrix Spaces yet).

Credits

Thanks to @jakenvac for designing the logo!