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**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 0
Anything you want to talk about that isn’t against the rules, but really just doesn’t fit anywhere else and you don’t want to leave uncategorized goes here. --- ## [An SKI combinator interpreter in kakoune!](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/an-ski-combinator-interpreter-in-kakoune/3024)
**Author:** [@mackeye](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/mackeye)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/an-ski-combinator-interpreter-in-kakoune/3024 "2026-10-04T02:42:14Z")
hi everyone! i’ve written an SKI interpreter in kakoune (without shell), partially for practice with reduction strategies and inference rules for class, and mostly for a challenge :slight\_smile: it isn’t quite a proof th… --- ## [Shell tool testing](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shell-tool-testing/2902)
**Author:** [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shell-tool-testing/2902 "2026-05-18T01:39:18Z")
Sometimes when I’m writing a Kakoune plugin, I decide I need an external helper tool for Kakoune to call, and I want to write tests for it. If I write it in Python, I can use the standard library’s unittest module, but i… --- ## [I have written a minimal one-color customizable colorscheme](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/i-have-written-a-minimal-one-color-customizable-colorscheme/2342)
**Author:** [@Nasmekva](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Nasmekva)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/i-have-written-a-minimal-one-color-customizable-colorscheme/2342 "2026-02-26T20:47:17Z")
Hello everyone ! :blush: I’ve created a colorscheme with “one” accent color, greys and terminal attributes : dabruin.kak It’s heavily inspired by vim-bruin, and I truly think it has allowed me to concentrate more and re… --- ## [Codeberg, Sourcehut, Oh-My](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/codeberg-sourcehut-oh-my/2801)
**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/codeberg-sourcehut-oh-my/2801 "2026-01-08T17:36:02Z")
A complete tangent for sure, but why Codeberg in specific and how has your user experience been? I will split this out into a new thread if it gets too long. --- ## [Kakoune's editing power](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakounes-editing-power/2355)
**Author:** [@ftonneau](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/ftonneau)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakounes-editing-power/2355 "2025-11-27T12:28:02Z")
Here and elsewhere, e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/kakoune/comments/pxsl2c/is\_kakoune\_capable\_of\_everything\_that\_vim\_can/ there has been some discussion of the relative editing power of Kakoune and Vim/Neovim. I always… --- ## [Kakoune like search in vscode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-like-search-in-vscode/2606)
**Author:** [@ebetica](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/ebetica)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-like-search-in-vscode/2606 "2024-12-17T22:29:46Z")
I have unfortunately moved on from kakoune to VSCode. However, I very much miss the token-level autocomplete with the / key. Does this exist in VSCode? Or is there a name for this way of autocompleting search queries? --- ## [List vim inconsistencies](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/list-vim-inconsistencies/2315)
**Author:** [@lobre](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lobre)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/list-vim-inconsistencies/2315 "2024-12-05T00:49:18Z")
Hello, Like many, I have a hard time deciding if Kakoune’s object-verb is “better” than Vim’s verb-object. It is tough to answer this question without being biased, and also the answer is not yes/no as there are advanta… --- ## [Trying to bring true colors to a small terminal multiplexer (mtm) so I can use it with kakoune](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/trying-to-bring-true-colors-to-a-small-terminal-multiplexer-mtm-so-i-can-use-it-with-kakoune/2289)
**Author:** [@Nasmekva](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Nasmekva)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/trying-to-bring-true-colors-to-a-small-terminal-multiplexer-mtm-so-i-can-use-it-with-kakoune/2289 "2023-09-26T14:45:44Z")
Hi there ! I’ve recently migrated from neovim to kakoune, and it’s been a blast learning all this new stuff and playing around with the editor. My configuration is at a bare minimum for now, like just clippy-\>cat and c… --- ## [Terminals all the way down](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/terminals-all-the-way-down/2229)
**Author:** [@ftonneau](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/ftonneau)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/terminals-all-the-way-down/2229 "2023-05-22T17:41:20Z")
A bit of reading about the world some of us live in: https://olgabaysal.com/pdf/MacInnis\_ICSE2022\_NIER.pdf (Kakoune is mentioned as Reference \[12\]). --- ## [Tmux causes \ lag](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/tmux-causes-a-o-lag/2171)
**Author:** [@tom-huntington](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/tom-huntington)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/tmux-causes-a-o-lag/2171 "2023-01-07T04:12:17Z")
Add new line above \ and below \ lags when using Kakoune in tmux. Can anyone satisfy my curiosity about this? I’m still a tmux beginner, and a naïve google search about tmux and alt reveals nothing. --- ## [Kak of theseus](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kak-of-theseus/2137)
**Author:** [@CharlesGueunet](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/CharlesGueunet)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kak-of-theseus/2137 "2022-10-09T13:50:26Z")
Hello eveyrone, A few days ago, I came across a project named git-of-theseus. I will let you visit this blog for a better description, but the basic idea is that codes follow the same mechanism that the famous boat, bei… --- ## [CharaChorder - Type at the Speed of Thought - Peripheral Device](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/charachorder-type-at-the-speed-of-thought-peripheral-device/1764)
**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/charachorder-type-at-the-speed-of-thought-peripheral-device/1764 "2022-03-27T04:57:49Z")
Both of these keyboards seem super-interesting to me. Sadly, the more conventional one won’t release until 2022! --- ## [C++ IDE for kakoune developers](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/c-ide-for-kakoune-developers/1973)
**Author:** [@duncan](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/duncan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/c-ide-for-kakoune-developers/1973 "2022-01-22T05:13:31Z")
Kakoune friends consider Licences for Open Source and get some C/C++ with external tool integration. Disclaimer: I currently use Jetbrains products through a university subscription scheme and its awesome! Thanks guys. --- ## [The little village of kakrc](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-little-village-of-kakrc/1950)
**Author:** [@meowgorithm](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/meowgorithm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-little-village-of-kakrc/1950 "2021-12-02T19:14:05Z")
TIL there is a little place in Montenegro called Kakrc: It appears to be located in the greater ~/.config region. --- ## [Avy: Filter → Select → Act](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/avy-filter-select-act/1949)
**Author:** [@Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Delapouite)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/avy-filter-select-act/1949 "2021-12-02T16:29:07Z")
Hi One of the key point of the vim vs Kakoune discussions is often over centered around the verb → object vs object → verb approaches. I enjoyed reading yet another perspective on this topic, this time seen through the… --- ## [Ergonomic keyboards?](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/ergonomic-keyboards/891)
**Author:** [@dannyism](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/dannyism)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/ergonomic-keyboards/891 "2021-11-10T19:36:54Z")
There are some very informative discussions about keyboards and ergonomics in the Vim community, so I was curious about the opinions of the Kakoune fanbase. What is your keyboard of choice, and why? I’m considering an Er… --- ## [Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/roam-research-a-note-taking-tool-for-networked-thought/1503)
**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/roam-research-a-note-taking-tool-for-networked-thought/1503 "2021-10-25T17:01:15Z")
Roam Research is basically a fancy wiki, but, it is VERY fancy with automatic reverse linking. It is one of the few tools after a few days of using it, I knew I would never go back. It is incredible and for reasons, I … --- ## [Asciidoc Book Editor - for your kakoune readme's and more](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/asciidoc-book-editor-for-your-kakoune-readmes-and-more/1851)
**Author:** [@duncan](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/duncan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/asciidoc-book-editor-for-your-kakoune-readmes-and-more/1851 "2021-08-26T16:05:28Z")
Asciidoc Book Editor is a book / document editor to build PDF, Epub, Mobi and HTML books, documents and slides. $ ./AsciidocFX for cli completeness: $ echo 'exec /YOUR/PATH/TO/AsciidocFX/AsciidocFX \> /dev/null 2\>&1… --- ## [Neovim 0.4 released](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/neovim-0-4-released/718)
**Author:** [@Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Delapouite)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/neovim-0-4-released/718 "2021-08-26T13:28:17Z")
Changelog: Always interesting to see the incremental improvements they manage to build on top of legacy vim. It may provides some inspiration. Among the many features, it appears that neovim can now handle transparent… --- ## [Does anybody use the ncurses\_wheel\_up\_button or ncurses\_wheel\_down\_button UI options?](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/does-anybody-use-the-ncurses-wheel-up-button-or-ncurses-wheel-down-button-ui-options/1831)
**Author:** [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/does-anybody-use-the-ncurses-wheel-up-button-or-ncurses-wheel-down-button-ui-options/1831 "2021-08-13T01:35:43Z")
Issue 2642 discusses removing them. As I understand it, those options were only potentially useful for old versions of ncurses, and now that Kakoune doesn’t use ncurses at all, they can be removed. However, it would be n… --- ## [How many "types" of snippets are there?](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-many-types-of-snippets-are-there/1777)
**Author:** [@skewballfox](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/skewballfox)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-many-types-of-snippets-are-there/1777 "2021-08-02T18:26:08Z")
so I’ve been working on a cross editor snippet manager(link to code), and I’m trying to improve the snippet syntax. I want to make the snippet syntax a superset of that defined by the lsp snippet spec but allow for prog… --- ## [Broot](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/broot/841)
**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/broot/841 "2021-08-01T13:28:54Z")
Fellow console junkies, this is a fun product: https://github.com/Canop/broot Sadly doesn’t play well with connect … yet, but hopefully soon! --- ## [A survey of newer terminal editor projects](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/a-survey-of-newer-terminal-editor-projects/1711)
**Author:** [@EpocSquadron](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/EpocSquadron)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/a-survey-of-newer-terminal-editor-projects/1711 "2021-07-02T11:44:36Z")
Like many of you probably are, I’m very interested in terminal text editors. There’s an inexplicable draw to working with pure text in a pure text environment that just feels right to me. I did a little looking around fo… --- ## [Kitty vs Alacritty vs tmux](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kitty-vs-alacritty-vs-tmux/1280)
**Author:** [@alexherbo2](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/alexherbo2)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kitty-vs-alacritty-vs-tmux/1280 "2021-06-09T04:49:56Z")
Terminal emulators kitty Alacritty tmux What do you prefer and why? Other terminal emulators are not excluded. --- ## [List of text editors wiki](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/list-of-text-editors-wiki/1757)
**Author:** [@gspia](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/gspia)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/list-of-text-editors-wiki/1757 "2021-06-02T03:55:35Z")
List of text editors - Wikipedia doesn’t seem to mention kakoune, panic! --- ## [Highlighter dreaming](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/highlighter-dreaming/1748)
**Author:** [@gspia](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/gspia)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 29, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/highlighter-dreaming/1748 "2021-05-29T14:29:14Z")
When coding, I face often a situation where I comment part of the code either temporarily or where some of the “language features” are actually used by coding something into the comments (e.g. Haskell doctests can be use… --- ## [Freenode drama and consequences](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/freenode-drama-and-consequences/1736)
**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/freenode-drama-and-consequences/1736 "2021-05-27T01:27:25Z")
It effectively has been a hostile takeover over the network, bad times. Massive channels have already started to migrate onto the new fledgling network the operators of Freenode have created – they are giving channel … --- ## [Subject-object-verb order is used by 45% of languages](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/subject-object-verb-order-is-used-by-45-of-languages/408)
**Author:** [@Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Delapouite)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/subject-object-verb-order-is-used-by-45-of-languages/408 "2021-05-12T19:50:52Z")
One of the main point listed while comparing Kakoune to Vim is the inversion of the verb-object paradigm to object-verb. As you know, this offers a lot of benefits in an interactive context. Meanwhile, for many users sp… --- ## [Sqeezebox Keyboard](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/sqeezebox-keyboard/1700)
**Author:** [@robertmeta](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/robertmeta)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/sqeezebox-keyboard/1700 "2021-04-22T17:55:30Z")
https://peterlyons.com/problog/2021/04/squeezebox-keyboard/ This thing makes me sort of uncomfortable even to look at… :laughing: [Next page](https://discuss.kakoune.com/c/off-topic/7.md?page=1)