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    Comment #43829040

    C and C++ can be made to generate pretty much the same assembly, sure. I find it much easier to maintain a template function than a macro that expands to a function as you did in t…

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    Comment #43827729

    C and C++ do have very different memory models, C essentially follows the "types are a way to decode memory" model while C++ has an actual object model where accessing memory using…

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    Comment #26312480

    My guess is that because in most common x86_64 calling conventions the caller is responsible for destructing the parameters, it has to run the unique_ptr parameter destructor which…

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    Comment #25426454

    `hook global RegisterModified '/' %{ add-highlighter -override global/search regex "%reg{/}" 0:+u }` will underline the current search pattern There is no ignorecase option, `(?i)`…

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    Comment #24695882

    Kakoune goes the opposite way, there is no such thing as "search and replace" in it, you'd use multiselection for that. It ends up being much more powerful because the editing lang…

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    Comment #21958631

    Coming from a video game industry background, I have been running Kakoune in Windows since its early days, but always in a posix environment (cygwin, then WSL). It was a concious d…

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    Comment #21957778

    To give a bit of context, the idea behind this design is that those scripts should ultimately only be glue scripts that convert from some editor agnostic tools into Kakoune command…

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    Comment #13167318

    The font is called terminus

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    Comment #10490830

    Hello, If you get your selections through a regex, you will have access to capture groups in registers 0..9 (which will store the correct match for each selections), so to do the c…

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    Comment #10486758

    Thanks a lot for you feedback, if you use tmux, interacting with fzf is easy as you can run fzf-tmux, that will open a tmux pan for fzf to run in. There is an example script for th…

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    Comment #10486738

    Hello, 1. that is missing, but mostly because nobody needed it yet, and I am not very familiar with repl style languages. I expect it to be implementable with current features. 2. …

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    Comment #10486166

    Thanks a lot for you reply, I try to be reactive to feature requests, especially easy ones like making something configurable through an option (I expect most of these to be resolv…

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    Comment #10486083

    Hello, Very interested to know what was missing for you ? We do not have options for everything, but I'll gladly add more options if there is a reasonable use case for them. In oth…

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    Comment #10486075

    Hello, Glad to hear you liked the interaction model, may I ask you what kind of options were missing for you ? The extension model is, I agree, unorthodox, but I think it does work…

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    Comment #9771019

    Hello, glad you enjoyed your first contacts. I have been using Kakoune not only to write itself, but as my only code editor in my day time job (C++ video game coding) as well for t…