Lansing in-person for Michigan!/usr/group - Topic: Helix editor

Lansing in-person gathering for Hybrid Michigan User Group event: Wolf will explain and live-demo the most impressive and useful features and design of the Helix editor. Helix is an open source, text/terminal-based modal editor (in the spirit of Vim) you might run locally or over SSH. In some ways it’s bare-bones. In other ways it is very much “batteries included”.
Some (positive) differences from Vim:

• select first, then act on the selection (sort of like Vim’s VISUAL mode, and exactly how every other editor in the world works).
• Multiple selections.
• Configured with TOML instead of with VimScript.
• Configuration file size differences are drastic.
• LSP aware and tree-sitter built in make syntax-highlighting, language-based text-objects, inline diagnostics, and higher-level operations on language constructs available with no plugins.