Use Helix as Defold external code editor

But I think VSCode is still the best

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Nice. I do love me some Helix.

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Glad to hear it! Helix really has that “clean and focused” vibe.

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Yep. VSCODE once I jumped to it for defold…I can’t imagine going back. From the AI integation, and extensions.

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I also like VSCode extensions and features. They’re just so useful.

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how did you set this up?

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At first, you need to make Lua LSP working in the Helix editor.

Then, add defold API and .internal\lua-annotations of your defold project to Lua LSP config of Helix.


you can get more detials about them through Google search and AI.


you can get defold API from this repo

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awesome! thanks!

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