Re:Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing
by FreeFull on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:02PM
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I've switched from vim to kakoune some time ago. vim does have the advantage of a bigger ecosystem, but I do believe it is possible to have an editor better than it.
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Re:Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing
by farresito on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:14PM
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I've taken a look at kakoune. It's very similar to vim, isn't it? When I say vim, I also mean neovim, which currently is already superior to vim in a lot of ways.
The author of kakoune initially intended to rewrite vim from scratch, so there is definitely a similarity. A big difference is that kakoune operates in terms of selections rather than motions, with built-in support for things like multiple cursors as well. I find it more intuitive to use than vim, and just as powerful.
Re:Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing
by farresito on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:11PM
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Interesting. I've already given it a short try and I can see some differences. Do you use it as your main editor when you need to use an editor?
Yes, I do use it as my main editor (I have "vim" aliased to start kakoune instead). Knowledge on how to use kakoune doesn't seem to interfere when I need to use vim for some reason (such as ssh-ing into some machine that doesn't have kakoune).
I too find kakoune interesting and have recently begun to add multiple cursor/selection support to my vim like editor.