GoKawiilI've been using Helix as my editor to develop on remote servers for quite some time now.
There are a lot of emerging supply-chain attacks, and I simply don't like the idea of installing tens of plugins to Vim/Neovim to make the editor usable.
To make the switch from Neovim easier, I had to make some changes to the configuration. I want to share them to save you some time, because discovering them is not straightforward.
Tmux setup
I use tmux as a terminal multiplexer.
One thing that I miss from Neovim setup is a good file manager and TUI for git. I rarely use a file manager, but when I need to, I usually want to move a bunch of selected files quickly. Unfortunately, Helix does not support file editing in the explorer. You can only view them.
To overcome it, I added new keybindings to my tmux config:
# Yazi related set -g allow-passthrough on set -ga update-environment TERM set -ga update-environment TERM_PROGRAM bind-key y display-popup -d '#{pane_current_path}' -x R -h 95 % -w 95 % -E 'tmux new-session yazi \; set status off' bind-key g popup -E -w 95 % -h 95 % -d '#{pane_current_path}' lazygit bind-key e display-popup -w 95 % -h 90 % -E "tmux capture-pane -Jp -S- | hx -"
When I hit one of the keys, a new pop-up window opens.
prefix - y - opens yazi file manager
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