Kakoune Code Editor
olexsmir
31 points
7 comments
August 18, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
Nail2680
Another similarish editor is Helix, which is, I think, nicer since it has tree sitter grammars builtin
jiehong
The visual by default editing mode of Kakoune really made me like the vim way, where vim couldn’t. Im very glad for that. I see the development of Kakoune is much more active than I thought it was. That’s heartwarming! Anybody knows how has the community split between Kakoune and Helix in the end?
varun_ch
Mildly related: I have found that the best text editor I've ever used is neovim with Claude code writing the config which I don't look at. I'm not a huge fan of 'vibe coding' or whatever, but being able to configure my editor in English is amazing. eg. "Make <leader>L run `lint/all` on the codebase" "Make yanks use the system clipboard so I can y or p to the clipboard" "Make it so <leader>yd yanks the current file name" "Make it so <leader>yD yanks the current file name and path, eg. a/b/file.txt:30" Plus with nvim 0.12, there's a native package manager, so I can just ask the agent to add a vim.pack.add() for whatever plugin I want. eg. "Add telescope using vim.pack, and set up <leader>fg to to grep in the cwd"