Helix integration

[gimalay]

Please let us know if you encounter any issues with the Helix integration.

Integration instructions are available at IWE.md

[ficd0]

I recently started using Helix so I've been eyeing this. I'll give it a shot and comment if I have any issues.

[ficd0]

@gimalay I've just installed and configured on helix and I'm having a few problems. Notably, none of the code actions are working. For example I can't figure out how to change the format of an unordered list to ordered, and the extracting sections doesn't work either. I'll open an issue because I have some logs from Helix.

[ficd0]

already got them on, very helpful indeed!

[enkodr]

As far as I understand this is just a hint.
I'm curious on a good workflow to open that destination file with keybindings in Helix.
@ficcdaf Do you have any suggestion here? Or is there any other option that I don't know of?

[ficd0]

As far as I understand this is just a hint.
I'm curious on a good workflow to open that destination file with keybindings in Helix.
@ficcdaf Do you have any suggestion here? Or is there any other option that I don't know of?

If your cursor is on a link to another file, you can use the Go-to Definition command. If your cursor is on a Heading which is linked to from another file, you can use the go-to references command.

I believe the default keybindings for these are gd and gr. If I'm wrong, you can check the Helix docs.

Note: I will be updating the LSP features page on the wiki to clearly indicate how to use the features. I'll also write a Helix specific page with keybindings and recommendations.

[ficd0]

@enkodr Check out the "Helix usage guide" and the "Usage" pages on the wiki; I added some info there that should be helpful for getting started on how to use the LSP features.

[enkodr]

@ficcdaf that's an amazing starting point that I believe will help other people!

[gimalay]

I fixed notes search in Helix. It’s driven by server. Takes into account page rank (number of links to the page) and very fast.

[ficd0]

I can confirm it works very well on Helix, thanks for the quick fix!

[woomax]

Hey @gimalay, thank you for building iwe. Oddly enough, I experience the same problem as @ficcdaf now - no code actions work. I am on 0.0.26 and Helix 25.01.1. Any clue? 0.0.20 works fine, in all subsequent versions "Space - a" just yields "No code actions available"....

[ficd0]

I'm having the same issue. @gimalay said he would be unavailable to fix this for a bit. So for now I recommend rolling back to the last working version.

[woomax]

Thanks for the heads-up. Will do!

[gimalay]

the issue is fixed in the latest version.

[ha1ix]

Wanted to chime in to say that IWE works perfectly with Helix. Previously I was using markdown-oxide which had a number of features that did not work in Helix. Very excited to make use of IWE!

[ha1ix]

I am interested in what helix quirks I am unaware of before I accidentally break some of my notes. For example the Usage Guide says:
TODO: add specific examples and keybindings in Helix TODO: document Helix-specific quirks (e.g. need to manually delete buffer after inlining a section)
I assume this means un-extracting (aka inlining) a note leaves the old extracted note in place which needs to be manually deleted.

I added necessity to run :write-all after creating new notes via extraction to the cheat sheet..

[gimalay]

Thanks! Help with the docs is highly appreciated

[ha1ix]

Just want to report for future reference that comapred to markdown-oxide which has similiar aims, IWE has much better helix integration.

[facultatiff157]

Hey, using Helix, when trying to rename a file (by pressing "space + r", which call the lsp "rename-symbol" action), I consistently get the following error message : "LSP did not respond to prepare rename request".

I have tested the rename feature of marksman LSP, which behaves inconsistently : it only works when a heading is currently selected... So maybe it's a Helix problem.

Other than that, the experience with IWE in Helix is very smooth, thank you for this cool piece of software :)

[gimalay]

Hey @facultatiff157

The rename works only when the cursor is on a link. I just want to double check that it's what you are trying.

[facultatiff157]

You were right to double check, that was not at all what I was trying, I am sorry :/ This way (with the cursor on a link) works very well, thank you !

[hoichi]

Do you plan to make rename work on markdown headers (with H1 rename also renaming the file)? Yes, I can always try and go to a reference and then rename from a link, and if there's no reference, just use :move command to rename the file, but renaming headers seems simpler.

[gimalay]

What would you expect if there is more then one h1 in the file?

[hoichi]

I think failure is (almost) always better than undefined behaviour, so I'd probably expect that the file would be considered invalid and renaming failed.

[gimalay]

@David-Else I want to thank you for the amazing helix tutorials!

You may not heard about this project. I hope it can be useful for you.