Aral Balkan

If you’re running Helix Editor from source, you might want to hold off upgrading or, if you have, revert to commit 5ab85283.

They removed navigation in insert mode and I’m hoping they will reverse that decision soon.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3671#issuecomment-1249197765

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Remove default insert mode movement bindings by dead10ck · Pull Request #3671 · helix-editor/helix

Helix is first and foremost a modal editor. Willingness to support non-modal editing is there, but it is not one that should be encouraged with the default settings. There are an increasing number ...

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Ayush Agarwal

in reply to Aral Balkan • 1 year ago • •

I haven't used Helix extensively yet and although I agree that breaking existing workflows isn't a good idea, introducing navigation in insert mode in a modal editor was an abysmal decision to begin with. I'm not surprised it was removed.

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Aral Balkan

in reply to Ayush Agarwal • 1 year ago • •

@ayushnix It’s not if you consider that your app doesn’t live in an vacuum and people have muscle memory from *checks notes* every other app they use :)

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