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Kakoune Code Editor
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Re: Kakoune Code Editor
#12Check out helix [0] for a kakoune inspired editor with some nice modern features included by default.
Re: Kakoune Code Editor
#13It seems to be a decent editor. I did not like the kak config files and the syntax it uses for some reason. That’s one of the main reasons I stayed away from it. Gonna check again to see if anything changed.
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#14Does anyone use this daily? this gets posted a few times a year to HN but tbh it looks like someone just re-invented vi. Which seems kindof like creating a new religion. It can be done, but even the best televangelist isn't going to hold a candle to the spread of the catholic church.
I've used it daily for ~6 months now. Before that I had used Vim for close to 8 years and tried many different editors during that time but I always went back to using it. I feel Kakoune truly is an improvement over Vim and I highly suggest you try it if you like modal editing.
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#15Note the existence of kakoune.el, an emacs emulation of Kakoune's core:
https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el
I have no idea how well it reproduces the experience - I'll probably be using vim on servers and emacs evil-mode locally until the day I die, so I haven't bothered to get into Kakoune, awesome though it seems.
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#16I tried kakoune on the basis of a blog post I found here a while back, that described its better-thought out Vim-like command language. I was hooked almost immediately. Now I use it daily. So if you like Vi/Vim's text editing model but wish its language was more orthogonal and powerful, give Kakoune a shot.
What did you find easier/more powerful about Kakoune than its equivalent in vim?
The multiline cursor is a great tool I didn't know I needed before I tried Kakoune. Also, the commands are more logical. Go to end of line with gl, select code from current place until the end of line with GL, go to the start of line with gh, go to the end of file with gj and to the top with gk, etc. It's more logical and the fact that you can use visual select by keeping shift down when moving is very nice.
Re: Kakoune Code Editor
#17Kakoune does not yet have an interactive tutorial, like vim's `vimtutor` -- its developer community has mixed feelings about the need to develop an analogue. In lieu of it, there exists a document called TRAMPOLINE that is meant to help new users get up to speed quickly. It is available here: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/contrib/TRAMPOL...
Re: Kakoune Code Editor
#18I tried kakoune on the basis of a blog post I found here a while back, that described its better-thought out Vim-like command language. I was hooked almost immediately. Now I use it daily. So if you like Vi/Vim's text editing model but wish its language was more orthogonal and powerful, give Kakoune a shot.
What did you find easier/more powerful about Kakoune than its equivalent in vim?
movement before command sounds nice, eg 'wd' to delete a word instead of 'dw'
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#19Anyone knows where the name came from?
It means "kick", "hit". See one of the comments here: [0]. Also (if you speak French) this: [1]
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1tdiap/kakoune_a_longd...
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_de_Nouvelle-Cal%...
Re: Kakoune Code Editor
#20Does anyone use this daily? this gets posted a few times a year to HN but tbh it looks like someone just re-invented vi. Which seems kindof like creating a new religion. It can be done, but even the best televangelist isn't going to hold a candle to the spread of the catholic church.
I've gone for several week long stretches of using it but never fully converted. What winds up happening is that I get to a point in a project where I really need to focus on the code and not the editor, switch back to vim, and don't get around to switching back for another few months. The editing model is better than Vim's and if I didn't have 20 years of vim muscle memory I probably would have switched over by now.