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Helix
by helix-editorRust
Post-modern modal text editor written in Rust.
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- Last commit
- 2026-07-28
- License
- MPL-2.0
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In practice
Written by AI from this repository’s README · medium confidenceWanting Vim style modal editing with LSP and syntax awareness without assembling and maintaining a plugin stack.
Use it when
Use it when you edit in a terminal and want language server support and tree-sitter highlighting configured by default.
Not the right pick when
The README admits only certain languages have indentation definitions at the moment, so indentation may be missing for your language.
Capabilities
- Vim like modal editing
- multiple selections
- built in language server support
- incremental syntax highlighting via tree-sitter
- keymaps documented in the online documentation
Cost: Free and open source
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What the repository ships
Has testsHas docsCI configured
Detected from the actual files in the repository root.
Latest release 25.07.1
Published 2025-07-18
This is a patch release which lowers the GLIBC requirements of the release artifacts published to GitHub.
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README
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<img alt="Helix" height="128" src="logo_light.svg">
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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
All shortcuts/keymaps can be found in the documentation on the website.
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.
Note: Only certain languages have indentation definitions at the moment. Check
runtime/queries/<lang>/ for indents.scm.
Installation
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!