Ha! I have a very similar experience and I agree with all your points. I really enjoy the basic experience and `kak` is my main text editor ATM, but some detail

Ha! I have a very similar experience and I agree with all your points. I really enjoy the basic experience and `kak` is my main text editor ATM, but some details and parts of the philosophy are infuriating me. I started `breeze` as a prototype way to show kakoune author how kak could potentially work https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/2590 https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/2590 , and later decided that actually I could maybe push it further into a full new text editor. I'd like to make it more natural to use, and get rid of the (IMO) pointless idiosyncrasies like the plugin API being keystroke based. I'd like to also make it easy to embed into other software, so that there's some hope that it could be easily integrated into existing software, so I'm not doomed to forever switch between kakoune and classic-vi editing.