/en/tags/scheme/Recent content in Scheme on Xerxes II's BlogHugoenSun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000/en/posts/helix-wakatime-plugin-in-scheme/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000/en/posts/helix-wakatime-plugin-in-scheme/<p>My daily editor is <a href="https://helix-editor.com/">Helix</a>. I never got deep into Vim, so switching to Helix cost me nothing in terms of adjustment — it actually felt more natural. Helix works great out of the box, and the &ldquo;select-then-act&rdquo; editing model clicks with me more intuitively than Vim&rsquo;s &ldquo;verb-then-noun&rdquo; approach.</p> <p>Helix mainline doesn&rsquo;t have a plugin system, which has long been one of the biggest pain points in the community. However, <a href="https://github.com/mattwparas">mattwparas</a> maintains a fork (the <a href="https://github.com/mattwparas/helix/tree/steel-event-system"><code>steel-event-system</code> branch</a>) that integrates <a href="https://github.com/mattwparas/steel">Steel</a> — an embedded Scheme implementation — as a plugin runtime. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp, and Steel is a dialect of Scheme, so you can probably guess what writing plugins looks like: lots of parentheses.</p>