helix-wezterm

Turning Helix into an IDE with the help of WezTerm and CLI tools

Features

The following sub-commands to helix-wezterm.sh are available:

• blame Uses tig to open a "Git blame" in a split view for the current line
• check Runs cargo check in a split window
• exlorer Runs broot in left-side pane to open file explorer
• lazygit Runs lazygit is split pane.
• fzf Runs ripgrep to search through every line in the project. Similar to global_search
• howdoi Runs howdoi with clipboard contents in a new split window.
• open Uses gh browse to open the current file and line number on Github
• run Calls commands in a new split window. See source code details.
• test Runs a test on a single function if the cursor is on that line; otherwise, run all tests in the current file.
• tgpt Runs tgpt with clipboard contents in new pane.

Installation

You can simply download helix wezterm.sh and helix-fzf.sh to ~/.local/bin and then add this directory to your $PATH.

Install via homebrew

$ brew install quantonganh/tap/helix-wezterm

Install via bpkg

$ bpkg install quantonganh/helix-wezterm -g

Usage

Ensure that you're using fish shell with the fish_title function. This will allow you to see hx in the pane title when listing panes:

  {
    "window_id": 0,
    "tab_id": 167,
    "pane_id": 350,
    "workspace": "default",
    "size": {
      "rows": 48,
      "cols": 175,
      "pixel_width": 2975,
      "pixel_height": 1776,
      "dpi": 144
    },
    "title": "hx . ~/C/p/helix-wezterm",

Install the requirements:

• bat for file previews
• broot
• fish shell
• gh
• howdoi
• lazygit
• ripgrep for grep-like searching
• tig
• tgpt

Add the following into ~/.config/helix/config.toml:

[keys.normal.space.","]
b = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh blame"
c = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh check"
e = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh explorer"
f = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh fzf"
g = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh lazygit"
o = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh open"
r = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh run"
t = ":sh helix-wezterm.sh test"