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gitui-org / gitui

gitui

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

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Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

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Ah, I'm noticing that my parent comment didn't quite say what I intended! What I wanted to say, was that helix should make an additional keymapping file that has nearly identical keys to vim. Repositories like gitui [0] do this, so vim users can just jump in guns-blazing. Granted, they have far less keybinds to cover. The second link, "Migrating from vim", doesn't nearly cover all the differences between vim and helix. If there wasn't a keybinding file I could use, I would need a document that covers as many differences as possible between vim and helix. I found this document when trying to figure out a mapping in helix, and it didn't cover it. I can't remember what the mapping was though. I really want to use helix - I want lsp and tree-sitter out of the box in the terminal. I hate managing a neovim config. But I also use tons of other m
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achines, and vim is on all of them - I can't afford to unlearn that muscle-memory. I think you can make helix both it's own editor with it's own take on things, and capable of adapting to people who are heavily invested in the vim paradigm. [0] https://github.com/Extrawurst/gitui
In Helix 22.12
Gitui's README mentions that Lazygit freezes and sometimes crashes parsing large repos, taking the example of the linux repo, and reports that Gitui is more than twice as fast: https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui#3--benchmarks-top- At least for the stability issues, does this match your experience? I see others have mentioned tig here as well, I'd be curious to hear if they also find it somewhat slow and unstable. Gitui's linux benchmark lists it as being almost 11 times faster than tig.
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