Helix crates

[matoous]

Hi!

Going through the codebase after a long time and I have a few questions: what's the current difference/purpose of helix-tui, helix-term, and helix-view? And maybe also follow-up question - what's the desired state?

To my understanding (append question mark after everything):

• helix-term is the main entrypoint for the editor and it's where commands and features live. One could say the "business logic" of helix.
• helix-tui provides terminal UI components
• helix-view provides abstractions over UI components, so in theory and far future, one should be able to plug either TUI or GUI behind helix-view

Looking at the current state, the difference between helix-view and helix-tui isn't fully clear to me. Furthermore, if I am not missing anything, helix-term itself has a lot of TUI rendering logic.

Could somebody please shed a light on this topic? 🙏

[pascalkuthe]

helix-tui is a fork of tui-rs so it's a general term rendering libtary/abstraction.

helix-view and helix-term are a complex subject and we want to move most things to helix-view (#5581). The only thing that will remain in helix-term is the rendering implementation for various components for tui (so there could be a seperate helix-gui crate that does the same thing for a gui with as little duplication as possible).

°helid-viewanshelix-term` are also kind of a a kitchen skin right now. I want to split them up into more self-contained crates. That is all in the more distant future, helix needs lots of architectural work