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 / 12 months ago

Not Rust, but there's vis which aims to be a Vi(m) inspired editor with Sam's structural regular expressions. Source: 12 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

Their embedded player is Flowplayer, write to their tech support that it's not working. Source: about 2 years ago