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- text_editors
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- text_editors
Helix does not aim to be a better vim / neovim. Thus, for example, there are officially no vim bindings and Helix follows the selection → action model. Helix is also a relatively new project.
I always found the tab bar in vim to be confusing. Does not out the box do what other editors use it for. So I am glad that it is missing from helix in that form. As for a tab bar that other editors use, well I guess vim already beat into me the need to not really use one. I do find that I don’t really miss it with all the ways to open files and select buffers in helix
<space>b
for instance to see and fuzzy search buffers is very nice (or<space>f
for all files).Not yet it seems, though #1176 is tracking that and looks like someone implemented it a while ago. Might want to add your view to that issue to raise its importance.
X
will extend the selection to full lines andx
will also advance the selection by one line. I don’t think there will ever be a separate linewise selection mode due to how helix treats new lines. Though these keys are good enough for most situations.