What is Kakoune?
Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones.
Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.
Kakoune is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
Kakoune is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 729 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kakoune's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kakoune?
Developers
19 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kakoune.
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Kakoune's Features
- Multiple selections as a central way of interacting
- Powerful selection manipulation primitives
- Powerful text manipulation primitives
- Client-Server architecture
- Simple interaction with external programs
Kakoune Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kakoune?
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
Neovim
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: simplify maintenance and encourage contributions, split the work between multiple developers, enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source, and improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.
Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
Micro
Micro is a framework for cloud native development.
Micro addresses the key requirements for building cloud native services. It leverages the microservices architecture pattern and provides a set of services which act as the building blocks
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
