Philipp Emanuel Weidmann

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Thank you for the suggestion, that makes perfect sense. I did notice the `boxed` method as I glanced through the docs, but I guess I skipped reading the full explanation...

Take a look at the ligation sets offered by Iosevka. They contain different ligatures designed for typesetting the source code of different programming languages such as OCaml and Haskell. Configuring...

Sure, feel free to close this issue if you think it is out of scope. I'm a bit surprised though, since Alacritty already offers an extremely fine-grained font configuration, such...

@AlexanderBrevig I can't reproduce that (or perhaps I'm misunderstanding you?). My steps are: 1. Set `initial-mode = "insert"` in the config. 2. Open two files. 3. Both are opened in...

I think I understand now. You would like *only the first document opened in a Helix session* to be opened in the specified mode. That's not what I want, so...

> I really don't understand the use case for opening every document in INS mode. Long term, I want to make it possible to configure Helix as a *modeless* editor...

Since Helix [suffers from the same fundamental bug as Vim and Kakoune](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/133), its default keymap is essentially unusable with many non-English keyboard layouts. So the user has the option to...

Almost all source code in existence consists exclusively of ASCII symbols, yet Helix goes to *enormous* lengths to support Unicode, sacrificing simplicity and performance in the process. But the huge...

> I'm not sure you're taking the time to appreciate the scope of that task before making demands of a loosely organized group of volunteers who work on this piece...

Thanks for the feedback, @archseer. FWIW, the roadmap I had in mind towards configuring Helix as a modeless editor is something like: 1. Reset all default keybindings since we want...