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Baldur Bjarnason
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So, I'm trying out Helix editor despite loathing the anti-GUI nature of most terminal text editors because of how frustrating most of the bigger editors have become

And one thing that's weird is that all of the language servers I use work much more reliably in Helix than in, say, Zed or Sublime. That on its own is shaping to be worth increasing the cognitive overhead of work by losing the file tree and mini-map

Also, turns out less lag while typing does partially make up for the mode bullshit
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Christian Tietze · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq6u7alxzkjugh6535altqqk5gx7g0a63x6m300l898nenys0rsjuqz43src what's your GUI editor baseline? Minimap -- I guess VS Code?
kaveman · 5w
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