Guides
- User Guide7,598 words, about 33 min to read. Markdown
- Admin Guide5,416 words, about 24 min to read. Markdown
Helix is a modal text editor for the terminal, written in Rust. Its editing model is heavily inspired by Kakoune and Neovim: you select first, then act.
Generated June 2026 from helix-editor/helix at d3ec5bc
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