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What is Helix Editor?

It is a post-modern text editor. A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust. It offers built-in language server support.
Helix Editor is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
Helix Editor is an open source tool with 29K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Helix Editor's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Helix Editor?

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Developers
7 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Helix Editor.

Helix Editor Integrations

Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, Fedora, and Arch Linux are some of the popular tools that integrate with Helix Editor. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Helix Editor.

Helix Editor's Features

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

Helix Editor Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Helix Editor?
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
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Helix Editor's Followers
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