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I tried using Kakoune as a daily driver for a while. I still bust it out now and then when there's something I want to do that would _really_ benefit from multi
by BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
I tried using Kakoune as a daily driver for a while. I still bust it out now and then when there's something I want to do that would _really_ benefit from multiple cursors or structured regular expressions, but there's things that made me ditch it as my main editor:
1) Lack of windowing. I understand the pitch of radical simplicity by leaving this to the terminal editor, but it's just annoying as shit trying to write windowing configurations for different terminal editors. Something like making a window split and hopping between them shouldn't feel hacky and weird.
2) Extending the editor with Kakscript. Posix shell scripting is already something I do as little as possible, it's pretty much the worst programming language I can think of. Scripting kakoune uses shell scripting but it's far even worse, you descend into some weird un-debuggable eldritch horror mess of nested blocks of sh and eval mixing shell script semantics with kakoune editor state semantics.
Actually editing text with it feels amazing, though. It's like the yin to Emacs' yang.