Windows - getting syntax hightlighting and hints working

[rpherman]

I have built Helix from source for my Windows laptop, and it works great, however, I have not been able to get syntax highlighting to work. I've tried for Rust and Python and C so far. I have made sure rust-analyzer.exe symlink is in my root helix directory, but after swtiching lang to rust and opening a *.rs file, I do not get syntax highlighting. Please is there a more detailed setup/install for Windows? I am not sure where things go in the directory structure or how to setup LSP and Treesitter.

[kirawi]

You need to link the runtime folder: https://docs.helix-editor.com/install.html#build-from-source

[rpherman]

I had already linked it to the runtime folder in the helix root folder - helix/runtime. There is also one in the helix/helix-term/$PWD folder.

The solution was to run the two commands:

hx --grammar fetch; hx --grammar build

Thanks!