Hi everyone! I finally moved back to Kakoune after a long time (~2 years). I have everything set up the way I want and I’m relearning Kakoune slowly, it’s fun! Albeit I wasn’t able to change the terminal assitant. I remember it used to be possible in 2024, but now even if I set it to “none” I cannot hide Clippy either. Not that I have anything against Clippy but I preferred the cat. I even remember it being possible to have a custom ASCII as the terminal assistant.
Also tangential question but is there an equivalent in Kakoune for Cmd/Option on Mac? On Mac you could do Cmd+Left/Right to move the beginning and end of the line, and Cmd+Backspace will delete an entire line. Similarly, using Option with those keys would also do that but it’s word by word.
I’m not sure of the exact timeline here, but Kakoune used to use the ncurses library for its UI, so to configure the assistant you’d do something like:
set global ui_options ncurses_assistant=cat
At some point mawww wrote his own terminal-handling code that used the terminal_* prefix for keys in ui_options, and then ncurses front-end was dropped, along with the ncurses_* keys. The terminal UI supports most of the same configuration as the old ncurses UI did, but the options have different names, so:
set global ui_options terminal_assistant=cat
…should do what you want. Check out :doc options and search for ui_options for all the available settings.
Kakoune doesn’t have a direct analogue to the traditional Cmd/Option keybindings on the Mac, but there are commands for most of those things:
- beginning of line:
gh, <a-h>
- end of line:
gl, <a-l>
- delete line:
xd
- move one word back:
b
- move one word forward:
e (or w, which is slightly different)
- delete one word back:
bd
Check out :doc keys for the entire list.