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JayVii shared a note by Wolf Jan 10, 2026

The Helix editor using the light-background Alabaster theme viewing a sample Rust file.

The Helix editor using the dark-background Alabaster theme viewing a sample Rust file.

Published my port of the Alabaster theme family for Helix.

Alabaster is a minimal syntax highlighting approach by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) - only 4 semantic colors: strings, constants, comments, and definitions. Everything else stays plain text because code structure is already clear from formatting.

I've ported all 6 variants (light/dark × standard/BG/mono) from the original Sublime theme (staying as close as possible to the original). Also submitted a PR to ship these with Helix upstream!

Original theme: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster
Read tonsky's essay: https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/
My port: https://github.com/wolf/alabaster-for-helix

I tried to duplicate the original exactly, however Helix has multiple selections so I made the colors distinct between "selection" and "primary-selection".

#HelixEditor #Helix #Alabaster #MinimalDesign #SyntaxHighlighting #TextEditor #Rust

JayVii posted Sep 26, 2025

@hare_ware I am well suited with #helixEditor. But I was about to suggest #Thea. Looks like a vscode clone, but it us not. It just uses the same UI. Anyways, browsing their website makes it clear, that they also shove AI into everything...

JayVii posted Oct 16, 2024

Finally came around to write a very short post about the #HelixEditor scripts I wrote earlier this year for sending code to a REPL: https://www.jayvii.de/posts/helix-term/ #helix #neovim #rstats

JayVii posted Jul 29, 2024

@ethersync Let's hope #HelixEditor comes around with a plugin system soon. This would be a perfect addition!

JayVii posted May 18, 2024

When I switched from #vim #neovim to the #helixEditor #helix, I wrote two little scripts to code and run #Rstats code directly from helix (ofc it should work with any REPL). Finally came around to upload the two (very short) scripts to my #git instance today: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/helix-term/

JayVii posted Sep 8, 2023

#HelixEditor & #Tmux with only two lines of config makes a better code editor for #rstats than any other editor or #R IDE I tried before. Helix replaced neovim for me completely

JayVii posted Apr 2, 2023

Bummer. The new #helixEditor release finally has softwrap and other really nifty features, but as long as I am on #DebianBullseye, I cannot upgrade due to incompatible glibc versions :/

One more reason to look forward to #DebianBookworm