Kakoune Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Ki Editor

  Fascinating idea! To summarize for those who know [Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune), the idea is that every command has the form ["selection mode" -> "movement" -> "action"](https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/comparisons/modal-editors.html) instead of Kakoune's movement->action. So, instead of having separate commands for "next character", "next word", "next structural element", there is one command... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights

  Helix's modal editing is based on Kakoune's modal editing which is like an evolution to Vim's modal editing. You can think of it as being always in selection (visual) mode. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#selectio.... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• I don't need your query language

  You might like kakoune (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune), which does exactly that: first you select the range (which can even be disjoint, e.g. All words matching a regex), then you operate on it. By default, the selected range is the character under cursor, and multiple cursors work out of the box. It also generally follows the Unix philosophy, e.g. By using shell... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I use nano BTW.

  It might be worth checking out kakoune if you are experimenting with editors. It’s supposed to be equally powerful to vim but much easier to learn. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C

  For that, try Kakoune[1], which is modal with a mostly-postfix language instead of vi's usually-prefix one and uses this to also be a multiple-selections editor with immediate visual feedback. It falls too much into the uncanny valley of almost-but-not-quite-vi for some people, though. [1] https://kakoune.org/, https://github.com/mawww/kakoune. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• CppCon 2022

  I think the text editor, [Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune), was written as an experiment in modern C++ language features. Its documentation says it requires a C++20 compiler, though I don't imagine it was originally for that version, since it was started before 2020. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Regex Vis – regular expression visualizer

  No hand waving. Structural regular expressions are starting to get popular just in the last couple of years. They're getting integrated in text editors and other tools. Take a look at this talk for concrete examples from the Vis text editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41MyOrPt8Q. Also Kakoune text editor defaults to structural regular expressions in the search https://github.com/mawww/kakoune. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.

  Kakoune is a vim-like text editor, and lf is a file manager almost exacly like ranger, but written in go (performs much faster in my experience). Source: over 2 years ago

• Kakoune Code Editor

  The lowercase w resets selection to end of selection and selects next word, so 3w will select third word counting from cursor. Uppercase W extends current selection over any whitespace and then end of next word. Thus with empty selection you can do wWWd or w2Wd to delete three words but preserve whitespace, WWWd or 3Wd to delete three words and any whitespace between cursor and start of first word. That is, counts... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Helix: a post-modern text editor

  I really like the way kakoune (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune) handles it, the editor doesn't have any scripting as such, it has an "API" that can be used by shell scripts or tools written in any language. Unix is the IDE. I just could never get my head around the key bindings with kak. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago