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…testing N^2 complex. Sometimes a well-thought-through plugin system is no plugin system. Kakoune ( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ) is a good example of it. I know it's an Emacs celebration party, but that one decision made Kakoune super…

comment by paaloeye · 2026-10-28 · in Emacs Turns 50

…clearly (by claiming authorship). If someone is curious, here's when I don't claim authorship: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/pull/5515

comment by xlii · 2026-06-27 · in Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected

…a line). But that is not really the type of file you would be opening with your main editor. [0]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/2d8c0b8bf0d7d18218d4c9...

comment by atiedebee · 2025-05-20 · in Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search

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"](…

comment by ilyagr · 2024-09-09 · in Show HN: Ki Editor – Multicursor syntactical editor

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story by krobelus · 2024-05-11 · 0 comments

…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...

comment by laerus · 2024-03-30 · in Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights

…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…

comment by lapinot · 2023-09-21 · in Why Kakoune

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/

comment by krobelus · 2023-08-24 · in Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?

for zsh: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/zsh-zle

comment by johnd15sp34 · 2023-06-22 · in Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)

Kakoune has macros: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/keys....

comment by jzm2k · 2023-06-22 · in Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)

You might like kakoune ( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ), which does exactly that: first you select the range (which can even be disjoint, e.g. all words matching a regex), then you operate on it. By default, the selected range is the…

comment by Fissionary · 2023-06-17 · in I don't need your query language

…filename. If there is no match, it retries on the full candidate string Kakoune does the same, see https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/019fbc5439ad884f172c32... > Strict path matching means that the path segments of the query token…

comment by krobelus · 2023-03-19 · in A different approach to fuzzy finding

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Kakoune modal editor release 2022.10.31, with rare breaking changes

story by krobelus · 2022-11-02 · 1 comment

I think the text editor, [Kakoune]( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ), was written as an experiment in modern C++ language features. Its documentation says it requires a C++20 compiler, though I don't imagine it was originally for that…

comment by moeris · 2022-09-17 · in CppCon 2022

…. Also Kakoune text editor defaults to structural regular expressions in the search https://github.com/mawww/kakoune .

comment by pkrumins · 2022-05-11 · in Regex Vis – regular expression visualizer

Kakoune's [design doc]( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/design.asci... ) stresses that Kakoune is a text editor, not an IDE. What does this really mean? Obviously, the main way people use text editors like this is to…

comment by philip-b · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

It's not. See https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/454

comment by glandium · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

…sorry). This makes writing syntax highlighting extensions a pain/difficult to maintain[1]. --- [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/4411

comment by Sukera · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

…That is, counts work, it’s the movements that are slightly different. See manual §3.4–6[1]. [1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#34-movement

comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

…looking at the TRAMPOLINE tutorial [1] and you might come around to the `wd` school of thought! [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/contrib/TRAMPOL...

comment by sidkshatriya · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

…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]:…

comment by raiguard · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

Anyone else spot the iso646.h macros[1] in the screenshots? E.g., https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/src/buffer_mana... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_alternative_tokens#The_macro...

comment by loeg · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

…called TRAMPOLINE that is meant to help new users get up to speed quickly. It is available here: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/contrib/TRAMPOL...

comment by atdt · 2022-01-18 · in Kakoune Code Editor

I really like the way kakoune ( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ) handles it, the editor doesn't have any scripting as such, it has an "API" in the form of pipes and environment variables that can be used by shell scripts or tools written…

comment by flukus · 2021-06-03 · in Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

…https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/d68f2b8681f8eeb6b... https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/commit/47c0d2038807757207cd... https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Modifier-Keys#extended-key...…

comment by drran · 2021-05-20 · in Raw keyboard handling in Unix terminals

…did look for a FAQ but could find it. It doesn’t seem to be linked from their read me documentation https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by jamesrcole · 2020-10-06 · in What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with

Kak-oon ( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/faq.a... )

comment by reyqn · 2020-10-06 · in What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with

…-> action_letter, not action_letter -> object_letter model. [1] - https://amp.rs/ [2] - https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by _0w8t · 2020-05-28 · in Micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

…I'll just have to find what things to copy over from Kak. Since Kak can be used as a server also ( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC ) I can send stuff over to it for more extensive editing. I'll check the LitScript also.…

comment by jarpineh · 2020-02-21 · in Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code

…language like python or lua instead of creating such a limited editor-specific language. [1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/25429a905b717d29bdf92c... [2]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/25429a905b717d29bdf92c...

comment by timeattack · 2020-01-04 · in Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

…or at the very least understood how to use the onboard docs to write any plugin I wanted to. [1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by enricozb · 2020-01-04 · in Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

…cursors and noun verb as apposed to vi's verb noun order have to be experienced to be believed. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by Avi-D-coder · 2019-12-25 · in Ask HN: What do you think of using Vi rather than Vim or Neovim?

Relatedly, there's a vim-like editor that is all about moving from verb-noun to noun-verb. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by Symmetry · 2019-10-16 · in Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb

…me. I started `breeze` as a prototype way to show kakoune author how kak could potentially work https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/2590 , and later decided that actually I could maybe push it further into a full new text editor. I'd…

comment by dpc_pw · 2019-08-04 · in Build Your Own Text Editor

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story by bibyte · 2019-03-05 · 58 comments

…do the trick, though mounts are always tricky. Kakoune supports JSON RPC over a fifo, for example: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC#input-keys--o...

comment by marmaduke · 2019-01-08 · in Lazarus 2.0 RC3 – Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE

…] a music player prettyping [ https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping ] a prettier ping kakoune [ https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ] a nice (relatively friendly) modal text editor

comment by leeman2016 · 2018-11-22 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

…to implement but it just hasn't been yet to my knowledge. [1] https://github.com/ul/kak-lsp [2] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Fuzzy-finder

comment by adrusi · 2018-08-18 · in Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor

You might like kakoune, a vim-like editor which focuses on interactivity: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune It flips around a few of vim's operations (like for example, to delete a word, you do 'wd' and not 'dw'). This allows it to…

comment by chin123 · 2018-08-04 · in Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

…can be leveraged from within Xi editing framework in some capacity. (1)[ http://kakoune.org ] (2)[ https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC ]

comment by jarpineh · 2018-01-30 · in Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

> Kakoune uses a clippy ASCII art for its immediate help, it's nice. Had to look this up - very cute! https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#screenshots https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mawww/kakoune/master/doc/s...

comment by bjz_ · 2018-01-14 · in Rust in 2018: easier to use

…functions. However, the approach in the post is not very C++-esque, I like this one much more: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/src/utils.hh#L5...

comment by Occivink · 2017-10-21 · in Implementing Go's defer keyword in C++

…editor, but here's a really impressive introduction to Kakoune, another small but excellent app https://github.com/mawww/kakoune https://vimeo.com/82711574

comment by petepete · 2017-09-28 · in Modern terminal-based text editor

…multiple cursors) I've found[1] "simply" represents a buffer as a vector of strings. [1]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by omtose · 2017-09-08 · in Gap Buffers Are Not Optimized for Multiple Cursors

…Furthermore, Kakoune has a JSON-RPC user interface option that new UIs could be built around: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/7482d117cc85523e840dff... So it could happen if you wanted it bad enough!

comment by sevensor · 2017-04-20 · in Tmux and Vim – better together

…using ranger and fzf, or even just piping a selection to `fmt` to reformat a paragraph. [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Ranger [2] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Fuzzy-finder

comment by brynedwards · 2017-04-20 · in Tmux and Vim – better together

…as well. It's the first time in a number of years I've played with anything other than vim. [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/484

comment by nathcd · 2017-02-19 · in Getting started with vim

…your post. There are individual instructions and packages for many distributions listed here: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#2-getting-started On Fedora it was literally 2 commands to install: $ dnf copr enable jkonecny/kakoune ; dnf…

comment by tux1968 · 2017-02-09 · in Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

…over a year. It also has a vibrant community, jump in on IRC if you have questions or ideas. [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

comment by omtose · 2017-01-30 · in The Craft of Text Editing (1999)

…[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13165919 (the article has a video of panes) [2]: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/f7e2bfd76fc1629ffd4e16...

comment by tekacs · 2016-12-19 · in Show HN: Libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python