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Tried to access https://docs.helix-editor.com/master/themes.html#inheritance, from the 22.12 release notes, but got 404.

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The jumbotron asciinema recording at https://helix-editor.com/ is a little dated at this point: there are some changes in the UI that are missing in the video. At some point we should re-record the clip to show off some newer flashy features like soft-wrap.

Helix has existed for several years, so it makes sense to show the year on the news page,
to allow one to tell when a given news was actually published.

This Week in Rust mentions the Helix 22.03 release, nice exposure for the product. But the linked blog post doesn't say what Helix is! It wasn't obvious; I thought maybe Helix is a language for web services with a REPL 😕. The phrase "text editor" doesn't appear.

The second sentence of every communication about a project should be a concise standard statement of what the project is. "Helix is a language-aware text editor that operates on multiple selections." or something. It will make bystanders and search engines aware of what your project does, beyond just its name. Good luck with Helix.

Hey so I was looking at your website, after the video loads the website bolded text "Helix" get broken.

License will help with avoiding legal problems while collaborating on the development here.

We could use the same Mozilla Public License 2.0 as https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

On the helix website within the 'keymaps' tab, i think the text for delete_char_forward should read "Delete next char" 😬

Relevant code: https://github.com/helix-editor/website/blob/main/templates/base.html#L6

Having this attribute will stop users from zooming on mobile screens. Removing this is better for accessibility.

Current lighthouse score for accessibility is low because of this

References:
w3c/html#602
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22354435/to-user-scalable-no-or-not-to-user-scalable-no

This issue should really be added to the documentation:

"How to remap keys into the 'space' mode?"

helix-editor/helix#2844

I would have submitted a PR myself. However, it appears to me that keys.insert or other modes may be possible as well? I don't know. I would be good to have an exhaustive explanation added. I found the discussion by googling my problem after looking through the docs first.

helix-editor/helix#4419 (comment)

Can we highlight the new way of editing, select-act model, on the website? This way new users can tell what's different from vim/emacs. Update the video to show each of those features in use as well.

I'm willing to submit the video if that's gonna work.

Hi There

I love the new features 🥳 .
In the news article section "mode colors", I think it should be
ui.statusline.{insert,normal,select}
instead of
ui.cursorline.{insert,normal,select}
But I might be reading it wrong.

My feed reader (Thunderbird) can't subscribe to Helix news, as Zola currently builds broken Atom XML feeds.

Upstream issue tracked at getzola/zola#2024

In the latest release notes for 23.10 https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-10-highlights/ the section on smart tabs contains a gif with the inline diagnostics from this PR helix-editor/helix#6417 which doesn't actually represent helix at this point. Someone reading these release notes would assume that this feature exists, when it doesn't.

That someone was me, i spent a bunch of time digging through config options and docs trying to figure out how to turn that on 😅

If it's possible maybe please replace that gif with one that doesn't include the feature. It's not a huge deal but it causes unnecessary confusion.

Congrats on 23.10 btw :)

404 on imara-diff link of 22.12 (https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-12-highlights/) release notes page.

On some resolutions or browser window sizes, the "Install Now" button can't be seen when loading the page, so the user must scroll to download it. This can be discouraging as it makes it harder to install quickly.
I propose adding the same link to the Nav Bar at the top of the page, labelled "Download" so it is easier to download, and brings it more in line with other websites.