Helix

Usage ​

Useful commands:

Useful shortcuts:

Search ​

The default search is smart, case insensitive if search pattern is all lower case, case sensitive otherwise. To force a mode, prepend the search with:

• (?-i): Case sensitive search
• (?i): Case insensitive search

Truecolor ​

When accessing helix in a remote server (through SSH, for example), one may need to set the COLORTERM to get truecolor support.

set -gx COLORTERM truecolor

Sort ​

The helix way to sort is:

1. Select lines with x
2. Press Alt+s to split selection on newlines
3. Run :sort or :rsort

For case insensitive sort or version sort, use pipe to run an external command (in this case sort):

1. Select lines with x
2. Run |sort -f for case insensitive sort, or |sort -V for version sort

Configuration ​

Project specific ​

Create a .helix folder in the project's root directory.

To override the languages.toml configuration, for example, create it inside the .helix folder.

Vue language server ​

To update the language server, update languages.toml (read more here).

For hybridMode = true ​

[language-server.typescript-language-server.config]
plugins = [{ name = "@vue/typescript-plugin", location = "/usr/bin/vue-language-server", languages = ["vue"] }]

[language-server.typescript-language-server.config.vue.inlayHints]
includeInlayEnumMemberValueHints = true
includeInlayFunctionLikeReturnTypeHints = true
includeInlayFunctionParameterTypeHints = true
includeInlayParameterNameHints = "all"
includeInlayParameterNameHintsWhenArgumentMatchesName = true
includeInlayPropertyDeclarationTypeHints = true
includeInlayVariableTypeHints = true

[[language]]
name = "vue"
language-servers = [ "vuels", "typescript-language-server" ]

For hybridMode = false ​

Use vuels for all .{vue,js,ts,tsx,jsx} files (don't use typescript-language-server at all):

[language-server.vuels.config]
vue = { hybridMode = false }

[[language]]
name = "typescript"
language-servers = [ "vuels" ]

[[language]]
name = "tsx"
language-servers = [ "vuels" ]

[[language]]
name = "javascript"
language-servers = [ "vuels" ]

[[language]]
name = "jsx"
language-servers = [ "vuels" ]

Switch between vuels and typescript-language-server (use vuels for only .vue files and typescript-language-server for .{js,ts,tsx,jsx} files):

[language-server.vuels.config]
vue = { hybridMode = false }

[language-server.typescript-language-server.config]
plugins = [{ name = "@vue/typescript-plugin", location = "/usr/bin/vue-language-server", languages = ["vue"] }]