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helix

25.07.1_4

Post-modern modal text editor

A kakoune / neovim inspired editor, written in Rust. Features: o Vim-like modal editing o Multiple selections o Built-in language server support o Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter

Origin: editors/helix
Category: editors
Size: 199MiB
License: MPL20
Maintainer: ashish@FreeBSD.org
Dependencies: 0 packages
Required by: 0 packages
Website: helix-editor.com
$pkg install helix

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