[frenzcan]

Can any Helix users share how the muscle memory from vim is working out? I’d really like to give it a go but I’m worried I’ll pollute my memory of basic vim commands. I’m bad enough remembering cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts in different OS/applications.

[eviks]

> I’m bad enough remembering cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts in different OS/applications.

Change them to be the same! It's indeed a waste to have a difference for such fundamental keybinds

Same with Helix - there is a vim layout out there, no need to use a different set (unless, of course, you can use something better, but then you should also use it in vim)

[bitcrshr]

There’s also a fork called evil helix that uses more VIM-like bindings: https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

Helix has been my daily driver for a few years now, and it’s extremely familiar if you’re coming from the LazyVim setup for NeoVim. I make a few mistakes here and there if I have to use tools with just basic VI binds, but you learn to juggle them both.

The config is very well documented and it would be simple to rebind things too.

Hope you give it a shot!

[klooney]

It's mostly worked out cleanly, there's a ton of re-use of vim-isms. Now I just can't use vim anymore.