A post-modern development environment.
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4 <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
5 <project_license>MPL-2.0</project_license>
6 <name>Helix</name>
7 <summary>A post-modern text editor</summary>
8 <summary xml:lang="ar">مُحَرِّرُ نُصُوصٍ سَابِقٌ لِعَهدِه</summary>
9 <developer id="com.helix_editor">
10 <name>Blaž Hrastnik</name>
11 </developer>
12
13 <description>
14 <p>
15 Helix is a terminal-based text editor inspired by Kakoune / Neovim and written in Rust.
16 </p>
17 <p xml:lang="ar">
18 مُحَرِّرُ نُصُوصٍ يَعمَلُ فِي الطَّرَفِيَّة، مُستَلهَمٌ مِن Kakoune وَ Neovim وَمَكتُوبٌ بِلُغَةِ رَست البَرمَجِيَّة.
19 </p>
20 <ul>
21 <li>Vim-like modal editing</li>
22 <li xml:lang="ar">تَحرِيرٌ وَضعِيٌّ شَبيهٌ بِـVim</li>
23 <li>Multiple selections</li>
24 <li xml:lang="ar">تَحدِيدَاتٌ لِلنَّصِ مُتَعَدِّدَة</li>
25 <li>Built-in language server support</li>
26 <li xml:lang="ar">دَعْمٌ مُدمَجٌ لِخَوادِمِ اللُّغَات</li>
27 <li>Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter</li>
28 <li xml:lang="ar">تَحرِيرُ التَّعلِيمَاتِ البَّرمَجِيَّةِ مَعَ تَمييزٍ لِلتَّركِيبِ النَّحُويِّ بِواسِطَةِ tree-sitter</li>
29 </ul>
30 </description>
31
32 <launchable type="desktop-id">Helix.desktop</launchable>
33
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35 <screenshot type="default">
36 <caption>Helix with default theme</caption>
37 <image>https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/raw/d4565b4404cabc522bd60822abd374755581d751/screenshot.png</image>
38 </screenshot>
39 </screenshots>
40
41 <url type="homepage">https://helix-editor.com/</url>
42 <url type="donation">https://opencollective.com/helix-editor</url>
43 <url type="help">https://docs.helix-editor.com/</url>
44 <url type="vcs-browser">https://github.com/helix-editor/helix</url>
45 <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues</url>
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49 <releases>
50 <release version="25.07.1" date="2025-07-18">
51 <url>https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/25.07.1</url>
52 </release>
53 <release version="25.07" date="2025-07-15">
54 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-25-07-highlights/</url>
55 </release>
56 <release version="25.01.1" date="2025-01-19">
57 <url>https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/25.01.1</url>
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59 <release version="25.01" date="2025-01-03">
60 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-25-01-highlights/</url>
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62 <release version="24.07" date="2024-07-14">
63 <url>https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/24.07</url>
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65 <release version="24.03" date="2024-03-30">
66 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-24-03-highlights/</url>
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68 <release version="23.10" date="2023-10-24">
69 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-10-highlights/</url>
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72 <url>https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/tag/23.05</url>
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75 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-03-highlights/</url>
76 </release>
77 <release version="22.12" date="2022-12-6">
78 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-12-highlights/</url>
79 </release>
80 <release version="22.08" date="2022-8-31">
81 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-08-highlights/</url>
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84 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-05-highlights/</url>
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87 <url>https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-03-highlights/</url>
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90
91 <recommends>
92 <control>keyboard</control>
93 </recommends>
94
95 <categories>
96 <category>Utility</category>
97 <category>TextEditor</category>
98 </categories>
99
100 <keywords>
101 <keyword>text</keyword>
102 <keyword>editor</keyword>
103 <keyword>development</keyword>
104 <keyword>programming</keyword>
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