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September 24, 2025 at 1:54 pm
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Today, I’m using the helix text editor.
Helix’s editing model is strongly inspired from Vim and Kakoune,
and a notable difference from Vim (and the most striking
similarity to Kakoune) is that Helix follows the selection → action
model. This means that whatever you are going to act on
(a word, a paragraph, a line, etc.) is selected first and
the action itself (delete, change, yank, etc.) comes second.
A cursor is simply a single width selection.
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Brian Masinick
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