While Kakoune is mainly terminal oriented, it has an experimental json interface that while pretty basic can be used to implement a GUI to it. I took a stab at

While Kakoune is mainly terminal oriented, it has an experimental json interface that while pretty basic can be used to implement a GUI to it. I took a stab at it, and while it still needs half of the features to be on par with the terminal UI, it gives an idea of how difficult it would be (it isn't): https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml