I gave Helix a shot, and I immediately ran into a wall due to an undocumented limitation where in a language configuration, indentation can only be up to 8 spaces. (I'm working on an Assembly project with an indentation of 12 spaces to make more room for labels.)
Pretty often, my projects have weirdly specific needs like this. I think (Neo)Vim's greatest strength is that it always absolutely has some way of covering a weirdly specific need, whether a one-off command or a project configuration. But that seems to be against Helix's philosophy.
If Helix can't be the editor, then I can't justify taking the time to learn it. It makes me sad, though, because I really like what it's going for.
I checked the source code to figure out what the heck was going on, and I found this: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/207829eefee51095d...
Pretty often, my projects have weirdly specific needs like this. I think (Neo)Vim's greatest strength is that it always absolutely has some way of covering a weirdly specific need, whether a one-off command or a project configuration. But that seems to be against Helix's philosophy.
If Helix can't be the editor, then I can't justify taking the time to learn it. It makes me sad, though, because I really like what it's going for.