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# Helix
| Crate | Description |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| helix-core | Core editing primitives, functional. |
| helix-syntax | Tree-sitter grammars |
| helix-view | UI abstractions for use in backends, imperative shell. |
| helix-term | Terminal UI |
A kakoune / neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.
The editing model is very heavily based on kakoune; during development I found
myself agreeing with most of kakoune's design decisions.
# Features
- Vim-like modal editing
- Multiple selections
- Built-in language server support
- Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter
It's a terminal-based editor first, but I'd like to explore a custom renderer
(similar to emacs) in wgpu or skulpin.
# Installation
We provide packaging for various distributions, but here's a quick method to
build from source.
```
git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
git clone --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules -j8 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
cd helix
cargo install --path helix-term
```
This will install the `hx` binary to `$HOME/.cargo/bin`.
Now copy the `runtime/` directory somewhere. Helix will by default look for the
runtime inside the same folder as the executable, but that can be overriden via
the `HELIX_RUNTIME` environment variable.
# Contributing
Contributors are very welcome! **No contribution is too small and all contributions are valued.**
Some suggestions to get started:
- You can look at the [good first issue](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/labels/good%20first%20issue) label on the issue tracker.
- Help with packaging on various distributions needed!
- If your preffered language is missing, integrating a tree-sitter grammar for
it and defining syntax highlight queries for it is straight forward and
doesn't require much knowledge of the internals.
We provide an [architecture.md](./docs/architecture.md) that should give you
a good overview of the internals.
# Getting help
Discuss the project on the community [Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#helix-editor:example.com).

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| Crate | Description |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| helix-core | Core editing primitives, functional. |
| helix-syntax | Tree-sitter grammars |
| helix-lsp | Language server client |
| helix-view | UI abstractions for use in backends, imperative shell. |
| helix-term | Terminal UI |
| helix-tui | TUI primitives, forked from tui-rs, inspired by Cursive |
# Notes
- server-client architecture via gRPC, UI separate from core

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