NAME¶

helix - efficient command-line modal text-editor

DESCRIPTION¶

helix-term 25.07.1 Bla?? Hrastnik <blaz@mxxn.io> A post-modern text editor.

<files>...: Set the input file to use, position can also be specified via file[:row[:col]]

-h, --help: Print help information
--tutor: Load the tutorial
--health [CATEGORY]: Check for potential errors in editor setup CATEGORY can be a language or one of 'clipboard', 'languages', 'all-languages' or 'all'. 'languages' is filtered according to user config, 'all-languages' and 'all' are not. If not specified, the default is the same as 'all', but with languages filtering.
-g, --grammar {fetch|build}: Fetch or builds tree-sitter grammars listed in languages.toml
-c, --config <file>: Specify a file to use for configuration
-v: Increase logging verbosity each use for up to 3 times
--log <file>: Specify a file to use for logging (default file: /sbuild-nonexistent/.cache/helix/helix.log)
-V, --version: Print version information
--vsplit: Split all given files vertically into different windows
--hsplit: Split all given files horizontally into different windows
-w, --working-dir <path>: Specify an initial working directory
+[N]: Open the first given file at line number N, or the last line, if N is not specified.

December 2025

helix 25.07.1