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Nova vs Kakoune: What are the differences?

Nova: The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor. It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac; Kakoune: Vim inspired — Faster as in less keystrokes — Multiple selections — Orthogonal design. 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..

Nova and Kakoune can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Some of the features offered by Nova are:

  • A powerful editor
  • A themeable interface
  • Flexible workflows

On the other hand, Kakoune provides the following key features:

  • Multiple selections as a central way of interacting
  • Powerful selection manipulation primitives
  • Powerful text manipulation primitives

Kakoune is an open source tool with 6.31K GitHub stars and 483 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kakoune's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Kakoune
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    Multiple selections
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    Fast editing
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    Interactivity
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    Consistency of the underlying language
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    UNIX citizen
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    Self documented
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    Extensions
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    Beautiful
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    Fluid and Fast

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Cons of Kakoune
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      Mac only

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    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.

    What is Nova?

    It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac.

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        What are some alternatives to Kakoune and Nova?
        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.
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