Kakoune: Another Vim-Inspired Code Editor

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Phoronix: Kakoune: Another Vim-Inspired Code Editor

A Phoronix reader wrote in to share the work on the Kakoune open-source, vim-inspired code editor he's been developing for the past four years...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kakoune-Code-Editor

[swoorup]

This looks really good, but its a very much departure from vim. If vim had some of these features such command completion.

[GraysonPeddie]

very interesting editor. I might give Kakoune a try sometime for web development.

[CrystalGamma]

I wish someone would write a text editor that worked better with things like proportional fonts and elastic tabstops instead of yet another terminal-based text editor. Let me dream ... (I mean, I'm cooking something up, but with my (lack of) discipline it's gonna take years; would be nice if someone did it for me though )

[Hibiki Kanzaki]

May be vim-inspired in some way. I compiled it and did "kak Makefile'. No cursor. Tried j and k, no cursor, no change on status line. Tried Ctrl-G and Ctrl-C, still nothing. Clicked with mouse, no change. Tried J and it started selecting from where I clicked the mouse. At least the mouse seems to do something. Tried :q<CR> and it exited. So I figured I'd quit while I was ahead.

[schmalzler]

May be vim-inspired in some way. I compiled it and did "kak Makefile'. No cursor. Tried j and k, no cursor, no change on status line. Tried Ctrl-G and Ctrl-C, still nothing. Clicked with mouse, no change. Tried J and it started selecting from where I clicked the mouse. At least the mouse seems to do something. Tried :q<CR> and it exited. So I figured I'd quit while I was ahead.

Might be an issue with your terminal colorscheme. At least it sounds like a conflict between background and cursor color.

[Hibiki Kanzaki]

Might be an issue with your terminal colorscheme. At least it sounds like a conflict between background and cursor color.

Yeah. Some of the key bindings may be vi-inspired, but the main thing for me is it does something different for many (most?) of what vim does for the same keys. Maybe it's vim-inspired in the sense that it has separate command and insert modes, and uses ncurses for the UI.

[Hibiki Kanzaki]

Might be an issue with your terminal colorscheme. At least it sounds like a conflict between background and cursor color.

Yeah. Some of the key bindings may be vi-inspired, but the main thing for me is it does something different for many (most?) of what vim does for the same keys. Maybe it's vim-inspired in the sense that it has separate command and insert modes, and uses ncurses for the UI.

[Hibiki Kanzaki]

Might be an issue with your terminal colorscheme. At least it sounds like a conflict between background and cursor color.

Yeah. Some of the key bindings may be vi-inspired, but the main thing for me is it does something different for many (most?) of what vim does for the same keys. Maybe it's vim-inspired in the sense that it has separate command and insert modes, and uses ncurses for the UI.

[Michael_S]

I like the way nano has beginner help right on screen. I know that takes away screen space, but when the world has 6 or 7 billion people in it and well under 0.1% are vim or emacs users, it only makes sense to be as newbie-friendly as possible.

vim and emacs are awesome once you know them, but they're almost newbie-hostile.