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All the biggest gains I've seen in editors are, in order of importance, inline doc lookups, easy local file search with file-customisable ignores, quick file op

by nmca 8y ago

All the biggest gains I've seen in editors are, in order of importance, inline doc lookups, easy local file search with file-customisable ignores, quick file opening with fuzzy search and Emmet abbreviations. Does anyone know how Kakoune does in terms of these features? They're all much more important to me than say, syntax highlighting, which I find neither here nor there.

adrusi 8y ago
Kakoune doesn't come with any of these built in, however kak-lsp [1], the language server protocol client implementation, is fairly mature, and I wouldn't be surprised if it supported inline doc lookups. Certainly kakoune provides the facilities needed to implement that. Cross-file grepping, and fancy fuzzy finders are considered beyond the scope of the editor, but the wiki has some tips for integrating a separate fuzzy finder program into kakoune [2]. Emmet would be super easy to implement but it just hasn't been yet to my knowledge. [1] https://github.com/ul/kak-lsp https://github.com/ul/kak-lsp [2] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Fuzzy-finder https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Fuzzy-finder