How strange that the article never links directly to the Helix editor. I usually immediately open the homepage of whatever a blog post is talking about as a background tab to be able to click back and forth, or to be able to immediately figure out what the thing being talked about is, but no luck here, except for some decoys (like the "helix" link next to the title which is just the tag "helix" which sends you to a page with all the posts tagged with "helix", which happens to just be this one post).

I of course quickly just googled it myself and found the page, and so afterward I went to the source of the blog post and searched for the URL to confirm that it wasn't actually linked to anywhere. Turns out that about three quarters of the way down, in the "Key Bindings" section, there is a link to the Helix keymappings documentation page, which appears to be the closest thing to a direct homepage link.

Anyways, no nefarious intent being implied of course, I just found it sort of interesting. I am pretty certain it just got accidentally left out, or maybe the project didn't have a homepage back in December of 2024 when this was originally written? Although the github page isn't directly linked either (only one specific issue in the github tracker).

Oh, and here's a link to their page: https://helix-editor.com/

And github page: https://github.com/helix-editor/

Yes, it was pure accident! I surely had the helix homepage and documentation most of the time while writing this, but only thought to link that one bit of documentation! When I get to a computer next I'll update it with a link, because that would be useful.

Not linking to stuff is the new normal. Many subreddits ban you if you post a link to source. Tweets no longer contain links - you need to click on tweet to see the next ones that maybe contain the link