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yeah, the lack of a plugin ecosystem and consequently, copilot support, is the hardest pill to swallow with Helix right now. that said, its an amazing editor. excluding the plugin stuff, its batteries-included and is so refreshing to not have to mess with configuration files just to get it to a useable state.

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Maybe it's just me, but a TUI-only editor is a non-starter for me, for a number of reasons, first being that my terminals are set up for maximum readability for shorter sessions, not eye comfort over hours.

What about setting up a dedicated terminal for your editor? I think a GUI version is in the works, but that's probably what it will end up as.

My editor stack has been Zellij, Helix and gitui as of late, and, there's still a few important things missing for me, but still working on it...

I have other reasons… I a lot of searching across field and work in huge monolith with tens of thousand of files.

exploring large codebases is hard in tui editors for me too. there are certainly times when i switch to vscode when i’m working in a monorepo for the graphical file tree.

Same setup as me! I do miss out on the AI integrations (copilot etc), that I find a shame.

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