If you'd like to try out the sam command language yourself, there's an X11 port that works quite nicely on modern POSIX systems: https://github.com/deadpixi/sam. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

> Kakoune gives you: > Small and understandable core. > Proficiency with POSIX tools, and maybe even some programming languages other than sh. > Structural regular expressions as a central way of text manipulation. > With multiple selections created via regular expressions, acting upon regular expressions. > Fresh take on the modal editing paradigm. I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

If you want an editor that uses Sam's structural regexes with keyboard-focussed vi-style interaction, you might be interested in https://github.com/martanne/vis. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Not Rust, but there's vis which aims to be a Vi(m) inspired editor with Sam's structural regular expressions. Source: 11 months ago

I do not use vim nor a WM nor a Thinkpad, but I do use vis. It's great. Source: about 1 year ago

We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around. Source: 6 months ago

Before actual update, confirm your shell is independent on python. It is important when you use fish:. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

> As for why I don't think that's their goal, just look at https://fishshell.com/ not one of the listed features requires them to drop POSIX compatibility entirely. “Sensible scripting” is right there. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

This is the default behaviour of fish[1], by the way! [1]: https://fishshell.com. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Last suggestion? Give fish a go. Its amazing. https://fishshell.com/. Source: 11 months ago