Re:Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor
by angleofrepose on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:01PM
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That's a cool idea with gl and gr. I've never used 0 and $ in vim, D or C get me to the end, and I have what is probably an anti-patter in hitting I<esc> or A<esc> to get to beginning or end otherwise. Or its a change inside quotes or parens or db.
One funny anti-pattern I just noticed I have recently is when editing the last line I've written in notes I'll open a new line with O then immediately exit to normal mode, only to have the next thing I do be to hit i for insert.
I guess my long winded point is that it's easy to have anti-patterns sneak up on you and it's nice to see someone else's re-designed keybindings on a modal style interface to spur reflection on our own setups.
I still sometimes have the A<esc> anti-pattern. It's slowly been disappearing since I added gl. The kakoune keybindings were designed with a lot of thought behind them. They seem extremely natural.
Also, I meant to say that the my replacements for 0, $, gg, and G are gh, gl, gk, gj. 'g' for 'go' and 'hjkl' for the standard up, down, left, or right.
Also my goodness having built-in multiple cursors is fantastic. Kakoune multiple cursors is much much better than the vim plugins for multiple cursors.
As other people have said though, there are some plugins that have yet to be ported to kakoune. iirc smooth scrolling (comfortable-motion) and vim-wiki to name the ones that come to my mind.