Thanks for pointing out this project. It looks interesting. Just to your point on packaging.. I googled and had it installed and running on Fedora in about 5

Thanks for pointing out this project. It looks interesting. Just to your point on packaging.. I googled and had it installed and running on Fedora in about 5 minutes after reading your post. There are individual instructions and packages for many distributions listed here: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#2-getting-started https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#2-getting-started On Fedora it was literally 2 commands to install: $ dnf copr enable jkonecny/kakoune ; dnf install kakoune And then just "kak" to run it and play around a bit :-)