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Re:Why Kakoune by vaylian on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:45AM (#37598409)
Take a look at https://helix-editor.com/. It is basically a continuation of the ideas behind Kakoune but with a primary focus on modern day programming with a language-server. I use it for most of my programming today, because the language server support out of the box is just so much better than anything I managed do with Neovim.
Re:Why Kakoune by phowat on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:22AM (#37599025)
This project looks amazing, thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to give up Copilot for a better editor. But I'll keep this on my radar.
Re:Why Kakoune by notnmeyer on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:36AM (#37599246)
yeah, the lack of a plugin ecosystem and consequently, copilot support, is the hardest pill to swallow with Helix right now. that said, its an amazing editor. excluding the plugin stuff, its batteries-included and is so refreshing to not have to mess with configuration files just to get it to a useable state.
Re:Why Kakoune by TylerE on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:58AM (#37599595)
Maybe it's just me, but a TUI-only editor is a non-starter for me, for a number of reasons, first being that my terminals are set up for maximum readability for shorter sessions, not eye comfort over hours.
Re:Why Kakoune by aae42 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:48PM (#37600352)
What about setting up a dedicated terminal for your editor? I think a GUI version is in the works, but that's probably what it will end up as.

My editor stack has been Zellij, Helix and gitui as of late, and, there's still a few important things missing for me, but still working on it...

Re:Why Kakoune by TylerE on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:12PM (#37600716)
I have other reasons… I a lot of searching across field and work in huge monolith with tens of thousand of files.
Re:Why Kakoune by notnmeyer on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:01PM (#37665073)
exploring large codebases is hard in tui editors for me too. there are certainly times when i switch to vscode when i’m working in a monorepo for the graphical file tree.
Re:Why Kakoune by haarts on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:10PM (#37601588)
Same setup as me! I do miss out on the AI integrations (copilot etc), that I find a shame.