Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols
https://blog.helix.ml/p/technical-deep-dive-on-streaming
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One downside of Atomic Linux: Helix doesn’t support devcontainers
I needed some fun time yesterday night, so I applied the Catppuccin theme to Ghostty, Lazygit, and of course Helix.
The results look kinda neat with Amethyst on macOS.
@thibaultamartin
That syntax coloring in helix does not look very Catppucvin to me. What flavor is this?
On NixOS there is a tool called #Stylix, where you can change the style for many applications in one go. Love it.
I needed some fun time yesterday night, so I applied the Catppuccin theme to Ghostty, Lazygit, and of course Helix.
The results look kinda neat with Amethyst on macOS.
From VS Code to Helix
A Rustacean colleague kept singing Helix's praises. I discarded it because he's much smarter than I am, and I only ever use vim when I need to fiddle with files on a server. I like when things "Just Work" and didn't want to bother learning how to use Helix nor how to configure it.
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I spend a lot of my work and personal time typing text and code. Using VS Code was a no-brainer. Everyone uses it. Every project support it. And it Just Works™.
But what if I wanted to use smaller, simpler, standardized tools? As someone who never managed to get into (Neo)Vim, Helix has been an epiphany. It's not as scary as I thought.
The 80s called, and they want to give us our freedom back.
Helix strikes me as a project that needs to work on its contributor ladder.
The maintainers have a strong vision, which means they need to refuse a lot of PRs to keep the project focused. Having the courage to say no to more feature is one of the key aspects of this product.
But there are also too many PRs for them to review, to the point some become stale for months if not more. The maintainers should work on onboarding new maintainers they can trust, to spread the load.
Trying new modal editors to see if anything out there has come close to dethroning the king (vim of course). Helix and Zed were highly recommended options and of the two Helix seems like it could be a contender but Zed? There is no way to close the settings window in Linux and the backspace key doesn't work. Bugs like this are oddly satisfying to find but leads me to believe that these editors aren't being used in real world context or programming environments where building requires the editor getting out of your way. The marketing seems exciting but when put to actual practice you're trapped in the editor. I'm not sure if it's because of the collaboration features or just the fact that writing an editor for most environments is extremely difficult. Could be i'm just so used to vim but :wq has never failed in my history of using it.
The approach seems to be leaving behind legacy and using gpu's for speed which is admirable but I think that's also part of the problem. The reason vim is ubiquitous is because we can type 'vi' on almost any command line, on any platform in any decade and it'll load up. Zed is more of an IDE than an editor and this is where programming style and ideology comes into play. It's an interesting conundrum. What editor you use has in a way always determined what programs you write... Guess it makes sense in that context. #zed #rust #helix #vim #ide
Je me suis relu la doc pour me souvenir pourquoi je l'avais abandonné. ^^
L'outil a l'air trop cool. Mais finalement
Il ne correspondait pas à mes habitudes.
Mon impression, c'est que c'est un outil pour les vimistes qui ne touchent jamais la souris, et qui connaissent bash par coeur. #TeamBarbus ^^
Par exemple pour voir toutes les notes, il faut faire un `nb ls` de la même façon qu'on ferait un `ls`. Ensuite il faut faire un `nb edit xxx` pour ouvrir.
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Vous utilisez Vim avec les flèches ? Ou peut-être avec HJKL ? Dans les deux cas, vous sous-utilisez complètement votre éditeur, et ma conf au prochain @capitoledulibre est faite pour vous !
#Vim (comme #Neovim, #Helix, #Kakoune…) dispose d’un ensemble de commandes de déplacements bien plus pertinentes qu’un simple pavé de flèches, fût-il proche de la position de repos.