Installation
We provide pre-built binaries on the GitHub Releases page.
OSX
TODO: brew tap
$ brew tap helix-editor/helix
$ brew install helix
Linux
NixOS
A flake containing the package is available in the project root. The flake can also be used to spin up a reproducible development shell for working on Helix.
Arch Linux
A binary package is available on AUR as helix-bin.
Build from source
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.