Helix editor for Bevy

[nixon-voxell]

for the editor part, I find Helix to be quite suitable for bevy workflow. Hopefully someone can add something about it. I can help contribute too if needed.

[inodentry]

Yes. I know nothing about it. If you have useful tips/instructions/info, please provide them here.

So far, in the book, I have only created empty/placeholder pages for the most popular editors (like Vim/Emacs) even though I know nothing about them, to hopefully encourage ppl to provide me with some content to add there. Kakoune is the editor I use, so there is a page for it, where I share my setup. Jetbrains and VSCode are there, because other people have submitted some useful stuff for me to put on the page.

If you want a page for Helix to be created, please provide content for it. This is a more niche editor, so I am not going to create a blank page like I did for Vim/Emacs.

[nixon-voxell]

Okay haha. Actually Helix is a battery included editor. Which means only very little setup is needed haha.

[Jedsek]

@inodentry Oh, helix is ​​an very easy-to-use editor, similar to kakoune and highly inspired by it, written in pure rust, which is 26k stars now.
You could just put the homepage：https://helix-editor.com/, and installation of lsp: rustup component add rust-analyzer.
Then everything is set up, including syntax highlighting/lsp/keybindings

Personally recommended configuration (version: 23.10)：

• ~/.config/helix/config.toml:

### Theme: Compared to onedark, I prefer zed_onedark
theme = "zed_onedark"
# theme = "nord"
# theme = "catppuccin_frappe"
# theme = "catppuccin_macchiato"
# theme = "catppuccin_mocha"

[editor]
# shell = ["nu", "-c"]
line-number = "relative"
scrolloff = 8
idle-timeout = 0
completion-trigger-len = 2
color-modes = true
bufferline = "multiple"
cursorline = true
cursorcolumn = false
auto-save = true
auto-pairs = true
auto-format = true

[editor.lsp]
display-messages = true
display-inlay-hints = true

[editor.soft-wrap]
enable = true

[editor.cursor-shape]
insert = "bar"
normal = "block"

[editor.statusline]
mode.normal = "NORMAL"
mode.insert = "INSERT"
mode.select = "SELECT"
separator = "=>"
left = ["mode", "spacer", "separator", "file-type", "read-only-indicator", "spinner"]
center = ["file-modification-indicator", "file-name", "diagnostics", "workspace-diagnostics"]
right = ["position", "separator", "spacer", "position-percentage", "spacer", "separator", "total-line-numbers"]


[editor.gutters.line-numbers]
min-width = 0

[editor.indent-guides]
render = true
skip-levels = 0

[editor.whitespace.render]
space = "none"
tab = "none"
newline = "none"

[editor.whitespace.characters]
space = "·"
nbsp = "⍽"
tab = "→"
newline = "⏎"
tabpad = "·" # Tabs will look like "→···" (depending on tab width)

[editor.smart-tab]
enable = true

• ~/.config/helix/languages.toml:

[[language]]
name = "rust"
auto-format = true

[language-server.rust-analyzer.config.check]
command = "clippy"

Feel free to use or just ignore what I said above.

[YoungHaKim7]

my vim key setting(helix) config.toml

• https://github.com/YoungHaKim7/rust_vim_setting/tree/main/04_helix_settings

theme = "fleet_dark"

[editor]
line-number = "relative"
mouse = false
color-modes = true
cursorline = true
auto-pairs = true
true-color = true
scroll-lines = 5
idle-timeout = 50
completion-trigger-len = 1

[editor.indent-guides]
render = true
character = "┊"

[editor.lsp]
display-messages = true
# inlay hint #  :set lsp.display-inlay-hints false
display-inlay-hints = true

[editor.cursor-shape]
insert = "bar"
normal = "block"
select = "underline"

[editor.statusline]
left = ["mode", "spinner", "file-name", "file-type", "total-line-numbers", "file-encoding"]
center = []
right = ["selections", "primary-selection-length", "position", "position-percentage", "spacer", "diagnostics", "workspace-diagnostics", "version-control"]


[editor.file-picker]
hidden = false

# Key Setting

# At most one section each of 'keys.normal', 'keys.insert' and 'keys.select'
[keys.normal]
a = ["append_mode", "collapse_selection"]
# w = "move_line_up" # Maps the 'w' key move_line_up
g = { a = "code_action" } # Maps `ga` to show possible code actions
C-a = "increment"
C-x = "decrement"
"backspace" = { c = ":sh cargo run", t =":sh cargo nextest run", r = ":reload", f = ":format", s = ":w", l = ":log-open", g = ":sh gcc -pthread -lm -Wall -Wextra -ggdb -o main main.c", d =":sh rm -rf main main.dSYM", n = ":sh touch .gitignore", k = ":sh clang++ -Wall -Wetra -std=c++17 main.cpp -o main", a = ":sh clang -pthread -lm -Wall -Wextra -ggdb -o main main.c", x = ":sh chmod +x build.sh"}  

space.c = "toggle_comments"
space.w.h = "jump_view_left"
space.w.l = "jump_view_right"
space.w.j = "jump_view_down"
space.w.k = "jump_view_up"
space.w.o = "hsplit"
space.w.v = "vsplit"

o = ["open_below", "insert_mode"]
O = ["open_above", "insert_mode"]


# Muscle memory
"{" = ["goto_prev_paragraph", "collapse_selection"]
"}" = ["goto_next_paragraph", "collapse_selection"]
0 = "goto_line_start"
"$" = "goto_line_end"
"^" = "goto_first_nonwhitespace"
G = "goto_file_end"
"%" = "match_brackets"
V = ["select_mode", "extend_to_line_bounds"]
C = ["collapse_selection", "extend_to_line_end", "change_selection"] # Requires https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2051#issuecomment-1140358950
D = ["extend_to_line_end", "delete_selection"]
S = ["goto_first_nonwhitespace", "collapse_selection", "extend_to_line_end", "change_selection"] # Would be nice to be able to do something after this but it isn't chainable
s = ["delete_selection", "insert_mode"]
X = ["move_char_left", "delete_selection"]

# Extend and select commands that expect a manual input can't be chained
# I've kept d[X] commands here because it's better to at least have the stuff you want to delete
# selected so that it's just a keystroke away to delete
d = { x = ["delete_selection"], d = ["extend_to_line_bounds", "delete_selection"], t = ["extend_till_char"], S = ["surround_add"], s = ["surround_delete"], i = ["select_textobject_inner"], a = ["select_textobject_around"] }

# Clipboards over registers ye ye
x = ["yank_main_selection_to_clipboard", "normal_mode", "flip_selections", "collapse_selection", "delete_selection"]
p = "paste_clipboard_after"
P = "paste_clipboard_before"
# Would be nice to add ya and yi, but the surround commands can't be chained
y = ["yank_main_selection_to_clipboard", "normal_mode", "flip_selections", "collapse_selection"]
Y = ["extend_to_line_bounds", "yank_main_selection_to_clipboard", "goto_line_start", "collapse_selection"]

# Uncanny valley stuff, this makes w and b behave as they do Vim
w = ["move_next_word_start", "move_char_right", "collapse_selection"]
e = ["move_next_word_end", "collapse_selection"]
b = ["move_prev_word_start", "collapse_selection"]


[keys.insert]
j = { k = "normal_mode", space = "extend_line" } # Maps `jk` to exit insert mode

[keys.select]
# Muscle memory
"{" = ["extend_to_line_bounds", "goto_prev_paragraph"]
"}" = ["extend_to_line_bounds", "goto_next_paragraph"]
0 = "goto_line_start"
"$" = "goto_line_end"
"^" = "goto_first_nonwhitespace"
G = "goto_file_end"
D = ["extend_to_line_bounds", "delete_selection", "normal_mode"]
C = ["goto_line_start", "extend_to_line_bounds", "change_selection"]
"%" = "match_brackets"
# S = "surround_add" # Basically 99% of what I use vim-surround for

# Visual-mode specific muscle memory
i = "select_textobject_inner"
a = "select_textobject_around"
# x = "delete_selection"

# Some extra binds to allow us to insert/append in select mode because it's nice with multiple cursors
tab = ["insert_mode", "collapse_selection"] # tab is read by most terminal editors as "C-i"
# C-a = ["append_mode", "collapse_selection"]

# Make selecting lines in visual mode behave sensibly
k = ["extend_line_up", "extend_to_line_bounds"]
j = ["extend_line_down", "extend_to_line_bounds"]

# Clipboards over registers ye ye
d = ["yank_main_selection_to_clipboard", "delete_selection"]
x = ["delete_selection"]
y = ["yank_main_selection_to_clipboard", "normal_mode", "flip_selections", "collapse_selection"]
Y = ["extend_to_line_bounds", "yank_main_selection_to_clipboard", "goto_line_start", "collapse_selection", "normal_mode"]
p = "replace_selections_with_clipboard" # No life without this
P = "paste_clipboard_before"

# Escape the madness! No more fighting with the cursor! Or with multiple cursors!
esc = ["collapse_selection", "keep_primary_selection", "normal_mode"]