kakoune

mawww's experiment for a better code editor (by mawww)

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  • Show HN: Ki Editor
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2024
    Fascinating idea!

    To summarize for those who know [Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune) or [Helix](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix), the idea is that every command has the form ["selection mode" -> "movement" -> "action"](https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/comparisons/modal-edit...) instead of Kakoune's movement->action.

    So, instead of having separate commands for "next character", "next word", "next structural element", there is one command for "next" (as well as [a few additional motions](https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/normal-mode/core-movem...)). Every command starts with a ["selection mode"](https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/normal-mode/selection-...) like "column", "line", or "structural element".

  • Learning to Like Neovim
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Aug 2024
    Still, I am open to new advancements in the field of text editors. I am keeping an eye on Kakoune, Helix and Zed, for example.
  • Kakoune Editor Release 2024.05.09
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2024
  • Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
  • Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2024
    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
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024
  • Kakoune Code Editor
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
  • A tutorial for the Sam command language (1986) [pdf]
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2023
    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/

  • What is the best book for complete beginner?
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 2 Oct 2023
    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.
  • Why Kakoune
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2023
    > 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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