Comment by rfmoz Comment by rfmoz a day ago 1 reply Copy Link View on Hacker News For those looking beyond Helix, Kakoune and Neovim, Vis is a lightweight and elegant option, worth a look.
Copy Link spartanatreyu 17 hours ago Collapse Comment - It looks interesting, but I'd put it more in the "simple, but simple != easy" category.Helix is built around showing you what will change before you commit the change which reduces the accidental change problem that vi, vim, neovim has.In the case of Vis' regex based commands, helix will let you do a regex based find, remove certain matches, then commit a regex replace. Reply View | 0 replies
It looks interesting, but I'd put it more in the "simple, but simple != easy" category.
Helix is built around showing you what will change before you commit the change which reduces the accidental change problem that vi, vim, neovim has.
In the case of Vis' regex based commands, helix will let you do a regex based find, remove certain matches, then commit a regex replace.