Yazelix is a glorified config that integrates yazi, zellij and helix, hence the name, get it?

• Zellij orchestrates everything, with yazi as a sidebar and helix as the editor
• You can open and close the sidebar by switching zellij layouts (press alt ] and alt [)
• Every keybinding from zellij that conflicts with helix is remapped (see them at the bottom)
• Helix is called when you hit enter on a file in the "sidebar", opening as a new pane in zellij
  • If helix is called like that, that pane will be closed as well when you quit helix
  • Note: I recommend running zellij from your shell (nu -c "zellij -l welcome" for nushell). This way you can load your enviroment variables like EDITOR and HELIX_RUNTIME
• This project holds my config files for zellij and yazi, almost like a plugin or something, but it's just a glorified config!

The initial layout includes one usable pane (actually 4, counting the tab-bar, status-bar and sidebar):

• Tab-bar at the top
• Status-bar at the bottom
• Yazi pane (20% width) acting as a sidebar on the left
• Empty pane on the right

• Open and close the sidebar by switching layouts (you need at least two panes open to do that).
• New panes will be appearing to the left, stacked, but this won't change the layout.
• You can add more swap layouts as needed, using the KDL files in layouts.

Two or more panes open with the sidebar open:

Two or more panes open with the sidebar closed:

• Before, the yazi config files were in a separate repo, now its all integrated here!
  • Thanks to Zykino from Zellij's discord for that tip!
• Yazi's maintainer (what an honor!) added a init.lua file that makes the status-bar in yazi look really good in the small width it has
• The project's got a name! Yazelix. It simply had no name before and that was a mistake.
• This one is great: I've remapped 6 keybindings from zellij to avoid conflicts with helix
  • use alt m for new panes and the rest is in zellij's status-bar
  • this is configured in the layouts/yazelix.kdl file, if you want to change something

1. Make sure yazi, zellij and helix are installed and in your path
2. Remove (or rename) your old ~/.config/zellij folder, and just clone this repo in your ~/.config dir
3. You can open this layout either from zellij -l welcome or directly zellij -l ~/.config/zellij/layouts/yazelix

• I just set my terminal config to open zellij on startup, so I never leave zellij (my alacritty files here)

That's it, and feel free to open issues and PRs 😉

• I think one of the main things is just how dead simple to configure this project is. No shell scripting magic
• Easy to configure and make it yours
• I daily drive this, and will change it according to my needs, keeping it updated and improving it
• Even if you don't care about the sidebar, the keybindings may be helpful

• Be able to close the sidebar with only one pane besides the sidebar open (see the problem here
• Full Yazi pane: Integrate a full Yazi pane in another swap layout showing parents and preview, not just the current dir
  • this is already implemented, but has a few kinks to iron out.
  • To test, uncomment the yazi_full swap layout and panes, and increase the panes constraints by one
  • Problem 1: some panes swap with others when they shouldn't, like the sidebar and a normal pane
  • Problem 2: you have to "walk" through the closed pane, which isn't great
  • Big thanks to zellij's maintainer and other people for helping with this
• Higher Helix Integration: Currently, selected files in Yazi open as a new pane in Zellij, running Helix. It would be nice to open them as a split or a buffer inside Helix (though this might be complex to code).
• Rename the repo to yazelix: I did try that but using a custom path to the layout folder just didn't work with ~ or $HOME (see some issues here and here
• Adjusting things for helix plugin system: Namely making yazi just a full pane, and killing the sidebar, since there is a helix file tree plugin

If you find a conflict, please open an issue. Keep in mind, though, that compatibility with tmux mode is not a goal of this project.

• I recommend using alacritty as your terminal
  • because it's a "dumb" terminal, it has no panes, no tabs. This means less keybindings conflicts to worry about, less feature overlap
  • very performant
  • but I do want to explore more modern options, so long as they have a "plain mode", like this
  • you can check out my alacritty files here (they include all alacritty themes)
• Use nushell, it's a great shell, it's fast and beautiful and a proper programming language. Why wouldn't you?
• If you test this with nvim and it works, let me know (see the issue here)
• Special thanks to yazi's and zellij's maintainer (and discord members) for their help with some stuff. Also shoutout to helix's contributors!

• Shelix: Shelix does intent to maximize the hidden power of Tmux as an IDE, enhance capabilities of the incredibly efficient Helix editor, around an interactive menu that performs IDE related actions
• Helix-Wezterm:Turning Helix into an IDE with the help of WezTerm and CLI tools
• File tree picker in Helix with Zellij: Yazi can be used as a file picker to browse and open file(s) in your current Helix instance (running in a Zellij session)