I've been using this over the past few months and so far, the only thing that really bothers me is that there's no UTF-8/Unicode category selectors support in t

I've been using this over the past few months and so far, the only thing that really bothers me is that there's no UTF-8/Unicode category selectors support in their self-rolled regex engine, citing not wanting to ship a unicode character database to keep the editor small (only mentioned on IRC, sorry). This makes writing syntax highlighting extensions a pain/difficult to maintain[1]. --- [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/4411 https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/4411