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Chapter 7. Text Editors

Helix-25.07.1

Introduction to Helix

The Helix package provides a modern text editor written in Rust. It is based on Kakoune and Neovim.

Note

A network connection is needed for building this package. The system certificate store may need to be set up with make-ca before building this package.

Helix Dependencies

Required

Git and Rustc

Optional

wl-clipboard, xsel, xclip, and several language servers for different languages [6]

Installation of Helix

Fix a link to one of the repositories that will get cloned: 

sed -i 's/dannylongeuay/ngalaiko/g' languages.toml

Install Helix by running the following commands: 

HELIX_DEFAULT_RUNTIME=/usr/lib/helix \
  cargo build --release

Now, as the root user: 

install -vDm755  target/release/hx        \
        -t       /usr/bin/               &&
install -vdm755  /usr/lib/helix          &&
cp -vR runtime/* /usr/lib/helix          &&
rm -rf /usr/lib/helix/grammars/sources   &&

install -vDm644 contrib/Helix.desktop     \
        -t /usr/share/applications/      &&
install -vDm644 contrib/Helix.appdata.xml \
        -t /usr/share/metainfo/          &&
install -vDm644 contrib/helix.png         \
        -t /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/

Guides on how to use and configure Helix can be found here.

Contents

Installed Program: hx
Installed Library: Several grammer libraries in /usr/lib/helix/grammars
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/helix

Short Descriptions

hx

is a modern Rust text editor


[6] See Helix's Language Support for more details on language servers. Some are already in BLFS and may even be on your system.