Kakoune text editor | Hugonweb Annotated Link Bibliography

Kakoune is a Vim-inspired editor. Major differences from Vim include a focus on multiple selections and "orthogonal design", meaning normal-mode keybindings are redesigned to be more orthogonal. It also follows the Unix philosophy by not having much built-in. For example, to format paragraphs into a certain number of columns, I select text, hit | to pipe it to a shell program and run fmt. I'd just run gq in Vim.

I made this post with Kakoune. It took me a while to figure out how to get back to my text buffer from the documentation (type :buffer and then it shows in the autocomplete). In Vim, I tend to select things in visual mode and then perform actions on them. So I do like the selection-verb idiom of Kakoune, but don't like that visual mode is missing. It would take a while to transition from Vim.