Installation

TODO: Prebuilt binaries on GitHub Releases page

OSX

TODO: brew tap

$ brew tap helix-editor/helix
$ brew install helix

Linux

NixOS

A flake containing the package is available in the project root. The flake can also be used to spin up a reproducible development shell for working on Helix.

Arch Linux

TODO: AUR

Build from source

$ git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
$ cd helix
$ cargo install --path helix-term

This will install the hx binary to $HOME/.cargo/bin.