vim-easy-align VS kakoune

As part of my journey to moving to Lua, I'm trying to move from vim-easy-align to mini.align.

Not exactly what you are asking for, but table formatting is usually enough with general purpose align plugins: - mini.align - junegunn/vim-easy-align - godlygeek/tabular

For aligning text table data I usually used this plugin

I am happy to announce the release of mini.align - module of mini.nvim for aligning text interactively (with or without live preview). This is mostly designed after junegunn/vim-easy-align, but is implemented in Lua and has slightly different alignment specification and user interaction lifecycle.

call plug#begin() " The default plugin directory will be as follows: " - Vim (Linux/macOS): '~/.vim/plugged' " - Vim (Windows): '~/vimfiles/plugged' " - Neovim (Linux/macOS/Windows): stdpath('data') . '/plugged' " You can specify a custom plugin directory by passing it as the argument " - e.g. `call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')` " - Avoid using standard Vim directory names like 'plugin' " Make sure you use single quotes " Shorthand notation; fetches https://github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align Plug 'junegunn/vim-easy-align' " Any valid git URL is allowed Plug 'https://github.com/junegunn/vim-github-dashboard.git' " Multiple Plug commands can be written in a single line using | separators Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips' | Plug 'honza/vim-snippets' " On-demand loading Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree', { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' } Plug 'tpope/vim-fireplace', { 'for': 'clojure' } " Using a non-default branch Plug 'rdnetto/YCM-Generator', { 'branch': 'stable' } " Using a tagged release; wildcard allowed (requires git 1.9.2 or above) Plug 'fatih/vim-go', { 'tag': '*' } " Plugin options Plug 'nsf/gocode', { 'tag': 'v.20150303', 'rtp': 'vim' } " Plugin outside ~/.vim/plugged with post-update hook Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'dir': '~/.fzf', 'do': './install --all' } " vim-airline " display the statusline at the bottom of the vim Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline' Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes' " ale " check syntax on the contents of text buffers Plug 'dense-analysis/ale' " Initialize plugin system call plug#end() "================ " General settings "================ syntax on set cursorline set backspace=indent,eol,start " Show line numbers " set number " Show command in bottom bar " set showcmd " Visual autocomplete for command menu set wildmenu " Redraw only when necessary, speeds up macros set lazyredraw set hlsearch " system clipboard set clipboard=unnamed " remove all trailing whitepsace " https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Remove_unwanted_spaces au BufWritePre * :%s/\s\+$//e " The NERD Tree noremap 1 1gt noremap 2 2gt noremap 3 3gt noremap 4 4gt noremap 5 5gt noremap 6 6gt noremap 7 7gt noremap 8 8gt noremap 9 9gt noremap 0 :tablast au BufNewFile,BufRead * set expandtab au BufNewFile,BufRead * set shiftwidth=4 au BufNewFile,BufRead * set softtabstop=4 au BufNewFile,BufRead * set tabstop=4 "=========================== " Language specific settings "=========================== " Python au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py set expandtab au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py set shiftwidth=4 au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py set softtabstop=4 au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py set tabstop=4 " Markdown au BufNewFile,BufRead *.md set expandtab au BufNewFile,BufRead *.md set shiftwidth=4 au BufNewFile,BufRead *.md set softtabstop=4 au BufNewFile,BufRead *.md set tabstop=4

vim-easy-align - I haven't yet found a Lua-based equivalent with the same flexibility.

Also does this plugin support operator-pending mode like vim-easy-align does? For instance doing gaip, ("go align in paragraph; commas) in normal mode aligns all commas in the current paragraph.

Regarding your last question, there’s this: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align

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...

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/

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.

> 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..

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/

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.