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The Unlicense | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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kakoune
- Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction
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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...
- Kakoune
- Kakoune Code Editor
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A tutorial for the Sam command language (1986) [pdf]
And while it doesn’t use the sam language precisely, I think in the broader “postfix Vi with visual feedback” category Kakoune[1] also warrants mentioning. The command language, in my experience, feels much more logical than that of Vis coming from a blank slate (things might be different if you come from Vim, but even when I used Vim regularly I never used the editing language that much exactly because I could never remember the damn thing).
And having mentioned Kakoune it’d probably be unfair to then not mention Helix[2]. It has a very similar editing language, but it’s a fairly anti-Unix everything-bolted-in affair on the inside (“everything works out of the box” being the advertising take) compared to Kakoune’s Acme-inspired no-scripting scripting (there’s an ex-style command to exec a user program that can then drive the editor over stdio RPC, a set of hooks, and that’s it). So if you’ve come for the Plan 9 feels, I don’t expect Helix to be that appealing. It’s still a good editor, nevertheless.
[1] https://kakoune.org/
[2] https://helix-editor.com/
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What is the best book for complete beginner?
You can take a look at kakoune. The source code (excluding documentations, test cases, customizations etc.) is less than 40k. It is, IMHO, a show case of a C++ project in use.
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Why Kakoune
> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0]
Yes.
https://github.com/martanne/vis/wiki/Differences-from-Kakoun...
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki#onboarding
> which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises
Not very motivated for such a harsh critic..
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
I've been using Vim for years, but if there was one thing I could change, it would be the verb-noun order. The Kakoune[1] editor behaves mostly like Vim, but where Vim has `dw` as "delete word", Kakoune has it backwards: `wd`.
It might sound minor, but by placing the range first, Kakoune can give a preview of what will be changed. The longer or more complicated the command, the more this feature shines.
Strictly better as far as I know. A shame my muscle memory, and all default installations, are still stuck with Vim.
[1] https://kakoune.org/
- Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
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Helix editor: Make HTTP requests and insert JSON
Helix is a postmodern text editor built in Rust built for the terminal. It is inspired by Kakoune, another Rust based text editor. Helix has got multiple selections, built-in Tree-sitter integration, powerful code manipulation and Language server support.
meow
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Any fun ways to learn Emacs?
Using meow:https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others.
The muscle memory transfers well.
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Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights
Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger.
Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline...
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el
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Emacs Commands I Got by with for Years
Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode.
[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
[2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
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Emacs from Scratch Part Two
You have to go further for ideal IMO.
Evil and evil-collection integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach.
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
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Packages that you would like to be in emacs core ?
I think I'd rather hope for meow over Evil. It's close to Evil but embraces more of emacs' default bindings for calling commands.
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Emacs Is My New Window Manager
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.
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Vile Mode (VIm Like Editing)
Repeat action (evil handles this very nicely). see: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/discussions/414
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Devil Mode for Emacs
There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2]
[1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
- Meow Modal Package mode line
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Is it possible to make god-mode turn off automatically after a command?
I was thinking about this a little more and Meow has something known as keypad mode that basically lets you call key combinations then return to Normal mode. It behaves a lot like god-mode. I just tested it out and if you install Meow you can call keypad-mode from insert and then automatically return to insert mode.
What are some alternatives?
helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
god-mode - Minor mode for God-like command entering
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
evil-collection - A set of keybindings for evil-mode
vis - A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
xah-fly-keys - the most efficient keybinding for emacs
Yuescript - A Moonscript dialect compiles to Lua.
kakoune.el - A very simple simulation of the kakoune editor inside of emacs.
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
doom-meow - A meow module for Doom Emacs
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
ryo-modal - Roll your own modal mode