helix as an html/css/ruby editor

[work-leonid]

Hi all, I just started switching to neovim and came across helix. And I really liked it. It's great that a lot of things work out of the box. I would like to use it as an everyday editor for html, css and ruby/rails.

Right now I'm missing a few features

• emmet for html/css. Maybe it's there or is it planned?
• for some reason the highlighting doesn't work for html.erb files, but it works for rb
• maybe there are articles/videos on setting up helix for rails. I tried to go by the documentation, but it's too obscure for a newbie right now

But maybe i helix is not suitable for my purposes?

[sudormrfbin]

Previous emmet discussion: #1896. And an introductory video on helix: https://youtu.be/9Zj-wiQ9_Xw.

Edit: For erb there's an open PR - #2055.

[work-leonid]

Thank you, @sudormrfbin

• Support for emmet will be in future releases. But there is no exact date.
• erb.html looks like it will be done faster

I think this https://youtu.be/9Zj-wiQ9_Xw video is what attracts all newcomers. Too bad it's the only one. I can't even find articles about helix.

[work-leonid]

And we can add auto pairs for <> brackets https://docs.helix-editor.com/configuration.html#editorauto-pairs-section which will simplify working with html

[the-mikedavis]

For that, we could add a section like this to right here. Would you like to make a pull request that adds <-> auto-pairs for html?

[work-leonid]

For that, we could add a section like this to right here. Would you like to make a pull request that adds <-> auto-pairs for html?

Yes, I'll give it a try.

[pickfire]

I use it for django, it works like a plain text editor but haven't got the time to do django template tree-sitter for it yet.