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 # Helix
 
-| Crate        | Description                                            |
-| -----------  | -----------                                            |
-| helix-core   | Core editing primitives, functional.                   |
-| helix-syntax | Tree-sitter grammars                                   |
-| helix-view   | UI abstractions for use in backends, imperative shell. |
-| helix-term   | Terminal UI                                            |
+A kakoune / neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.
+
+The editing model is very heavily based on kakoune; during development I found
+myself agreeing with most of kakoune's design decisions.
+
+# Features
+
+- Vim-like modal editing
+- Multiple selections
+- Built-in language server support
+- Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter
+
+It's a terminal-based editor first, but I'd like to explore a custom renderer
+(similar to emacs) in wgpu or skulpin.
 
 # Installation
 
+We provide packaging for various distributions, but here's a quick method to
+build from source.
+
 ```
-git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
+git clone --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules -j8 https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
 cd helix
 cargo install --path helix-term
 ```
 
 This will install the `hx` binary to `$HOME/.cargo/bin`.
 
+Now copy the `runtime/` directory somewhere. Helix will by default look for the
+runtime inside the same folder as the executable, but that can be overriden via
+the `HELIX_RUNTIME` environment variable.
+
+# Contributing
+
+Contributors are very welcome! **No contribution is too small and all contributions are valued.**
+
+Some suggestions to get started:
+
+- You can look at the [good first issue](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/labels/good%20first%20issue) label on the issue tracker.
+- Help with packaging on various distributions needed!
+- If your preffered language is missing, integrating a tree-sitter grammar for
+    it and defining syntax highlight queries for it is straight forward and
+    doesn't require much knowledge of the internals.
+
+We provide an [architecture.md](./docs/architecture.md) that should give you
+a good overview of the internals.
+
+# Getting help
+
+Discuss the project on the community [Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#helix-editor:example.com).
+