helix

Tutor

The tutor, aka Tutorial, is great to learn how to use Helix.

Go thought it once at least. Don't hesitate to go back to it if you forget how keybindings work.

To open the tutor, run :

  hx --tutor
  # or, if you don't have the alias hx = helix
  helix --tutor

Open file as sudo

Instead of running :

  sudo helix myfile.conf

use sudoedit:

  sudoedit myfile.conf

This will use your $EDITOR, open a temporary file in /tmp and then save it to the correct location.

Don't forget to export the EDITOR variable in your .bashrc or .zshrc.

  echo 'export EDITOR=helix' > ~/.bashrc

Reference

• How to write to files that require super user rights? #4251 - github.com/helix
• man sudoedit

Terminal view

Seems to be in works. For now, it is recommended to run programms or builds in a seperate terminal, a terminal multiplexer or a terminal (like kitty) that supports spliting.

References

• How to run code in Helix - reddit.com

Write without formating

No current straightforward way to do this. But:

I don't think it's necessary to add commands for this since there's a workaround: you can :set auto-format false, :write, and then :set auto-format true when you want auto-formatting again.

This can then be bound to a key. Apparently there is a way to bind a sequence of commands to one key.

• test this sequence thing.

Sources

• PR - Add :write-without-auto-format commands #4909

Syntax Highlighting, LSP, Formaters & Linters

GO TO my lsp configuration wiki page.

Yank a diagnostic

:yank-diagnostic