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Nowadays, I prefer Kakoune ( http://kakoune.org/ http://kakoune.org/ ) to vim. Being based on selections rather than movements feels much nicer. It feels a bit
by FreeFull 8y ago
Nowadays, I prefer Kakoune ( http://kakoune.org/ http://kakoune.org/ ) to vim. Being based on selections rather than movements feels much nicer. It feels a bit like always being in a kind of visual mode. That said, there are the following caveats:
* Vim tends to be installed/available almost everywhere, Kakoune isn't
* Vim has a much bigger ecosystem
* There are some very advanced features hidden in vim that most people don't know about. If you depend on those, substituting vim with another editor can be hard.
- majewsky 8y agoI've been meaning to look into Kakoune for some time now. How steep is the learning curve for a long-time vim user?
- FreeFull 8y agoSome of the keys match up, but many are different. The actual way of thinking and composing actions while you're editing is similar, although I'd say thinking in terms of selections rather than movements makes things easier.