My Kakoune Editor Configuration
A friendly explanation of how Kakoune is configured.
Most likely, you are reading this because you already have some idea of what the Kakoune editor is. If you don’t, you can think of Kakoune as Vim for dummies. Yes, I include myself in that category. I have what amounts to a goldfish memory when it comes to remembering tons of commands in advance coding editors.
Read more: Kakoune, the Text Editor I Didn’t Know I Needed.
I quite like the whole concept of Vim, but I can never quite get used to it. Instead I prefer to use more GUI-oriented editors such as TextMate and VSCode. However, there are many cases where a more terminal oriented editor such as Vim and Emacs is preferable. Vim has been my go-to editor in these cases. But if you, like me, are more of a casual user of Vim, I think you will find Kakoune a superior alternative. It operates in very similar fashion to Vim. But it is like a modern more user-friendly version of Vim.
Here is a quick example to see the benefits. With Vim, you would delete three words with the d3w command. The logic of Vim is: First you type what you want to do, which is d for delete. Next you type the part of the text to apply this to. In this case, it is 3w, meaning three words from the word you are currently at.
