Kakoune Alternatives

kakoune reviews and mentions

• Underlying Data structure?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/kakoune | 12 May 2022
• Regex Vis – regular expression visualizer
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2022

  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.

• My recent ramblings about multiple cursors and similar concepts
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/emacs | 2 May 2022

  For anyone who's interested in state of the art development in the multiple-selections world, I highly recommend trying Kakoune. It's a Vim-like editor, so it may be foreign for most Emacs users, but what differs it from Vim is that it's built around the idea that you can operate on selections, selections selections, selections selections selections, and so on.

• What's the power of vim script
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/vim | 14 Apr 2022

  Don't get me wrong, I love bash. Its trauma from my recent endavour into kakoune, which uses shell expansion and pipes for scripting. I was trying to replicate some of the functionality of a fzf plugin and ultimately gave up after banging my head against 3 levels of escaped quotes.

• Alt-x in normal mode
  1 project | reddit.com/r/kakoune | 11 Apr 2022

  The README says,

• Ask HN: What IDE best supports Vim mode?
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022

  Neovim [1].

  Emacs with evil-mode work pretty well (IMO the best "vi-emulation within other editors; the vi-plugin in JetBrains-IDEs works also quite well, though), however I learned painfully that you need to know two languages in order to configure it to your needs: Emacs lisp as well as well as vimscript for your vim-configuration. And that is just too heavy for me, so I'm back to Neovim.

  There was the very promising OniVim 2 [2], which is very fast and powerful. However fundings were not enough, so the work onn it came to a hold.

  And then there exists a handful of other modal editors with vim-like modes. Kakoune [3] comes to my mind here, which may be currently the most vim-like non-vim editor actively developed.

  [1] https://neovim.io/

  [2] https://v2.onivim.io/

  [3] http://kakoune.org/

• Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal for the modern age
  39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2022

  They are very useful! As a long time Vim user who switched to Kakoune[0] a while back, I didn't even realize I needed a good multiline cursor from my editor before it tried Kakoune. Highly recommend it!

  [0] https://kakoune.org/

• When hitting enter, kakoune enters 38 spaces. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/kakoune | 1 Apr 2022

  This is definitely not intuitive behavior, if not a bug. It looks like there has been some discussion about how to address this in this github issue (about Lisp, but same problem), but there hasn't been any recent activity on it.

• Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022

  https://kakoune.org/ is modal, and imo it would be reasonable to call it modern.

  Perhaps "modern" in the terminal editor space is just a codebase that does not have 30 years of cruft (where cruft may include various legacy support and fixes for subtle/obscure/legacy bugs).

• Vim Cheat Sheet
  7 projects | reddit.com/r/linux | 28 Jan 2022

  Those who never found vim to be intuitive might be interested in kakoune. It’s also a modal text exitor, but it’s intended to have more intuitive commands and and is designed around multicursor usage. Even experiencd vim users tend to pick it up quickly and acheive comparable levels of productivity.

• List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.
  19 projects | reddit.com/r/linux | 19 Jan 2022

  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).

• Hacker News top posts: Jan 18, 2022
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/hackerdigest | 18 Jan 2022

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• Kakoune Code Editor
  1 project | reddit.com/r/hackernews | 17 Jan 2022
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2022

  I've been using this over the past few months and so far, the only thing that really bothers me is that there's no UTF-8/Unicode category selectors support in their self-rolled regex engine, citing not wanting to ship a unicode character database to keep the editor small (only mentioned on IRC, sorry). This makes writing syntax highlighting extensions a pain/difficult to maintain[1].

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  [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/4411

  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2022

  Kak is mostly self-documenting, but there are a few :doc pages that give more detail. Of particular interest are the commands [0] and command parsing [1] pages. Those will get you started.

  Kakscript does not have any control flow beyond a simple try/catch mechanism - for anything complex, you use shell scripting [2]. It is both a blessing and a curse - making it extremely easy to integrate with other tools, but causing some pain if you don't know shell scripting already.

  [0]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/comma...

  [1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/comma...

  [2]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/expan...