Helix — config.toml

Let’s start our journey to explore Helix, a post-modern text editor.

alpha2phi
7 min readJul 29, 2023
Helix — config.toml

We will go through configuration options to get us started using Helix.

This article is part of the Helix series.

The Helix configuration files are available in this repository.

Getting Started

In the Helix walkthrough article, we covered the essential features of Helix. In this article, we will go through the basics and cover more advanced configurations in future articles.

Check out this article for a quick introduction to Helix!

Helix comes with sensible defaults. Unlike other editors like Vim or Emacs, only minimal configuration changes are needed for developers to be productive using it.

We will go through configuration options that developers may want to customize in this article.

Configuration File

To override the global configuration parameters, create a config.toml file located…

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