helix-editor /helix

A post-modern modal text editor.

★ 46,931⑂ 4,011👁 237⑃ 7,121● 6,003▤ 30◈ 3,155
RustMPL-2.0Created 2020-06-01helix-editor.com
46,931
stars
+8
4,011
forks
237
watchers
7,121
prs
6,003
issues
30
releases
3,155
discussions

README

!Screenshot

A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.

The editing model is very heavily based on Kakoune; during development I found
myself agreeing with most of Kakoune's design decisions.

For more information, see the website or
documentation.

All shortcuts/keymaps can be found in the documentation on the website.

Troubleshooting

 Features

- Vim-like modal editing
- Multiple selections
- Built-in language server support
- Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter

Although it's primarily a terminal-based editor, I am interested in exploring
a custom renderer (similar to Emacs) using wgpu.

Note: Only certain languages have indentation definitions at the moment. Check
runtime/queries// for indents.scm.

 Installation

Installation documentation.



 Contributing

Contributing guidelines can be found here.

 Getting help

Your question might already be answered on the FAQ.

Discuss the project on the community Matrix Space (make sure to join helix-editor:matrix.org if you're on a client that doesn't support Matrix Spaces yet).

 Credits

Thanks to @jakenvac for designing the logo!

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

25.07.1 25.07.1 2025-07-18
This is a patch release which lowers the GLIBC requirements of the release artifacts published to GitHub.

Snapshot: 2026-11-10T09:35:25Z · Data license Apache-2.0 · JSON