# Kakoune, a punk-rock text editor

**URL:** <https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-a-punk-rock-text-editor/1294>\
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**Created:** [October 8, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-a-punk-rock-text-editor/1294 "2020-10-08T06:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/screwtapello/32/12_2.png) [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-a-punk-rock-text-editor/1294/1 "2020-10-08T06:15:49Z")

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A while ago, I [claimed on this forum](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/using-other-name-than-keys-name-in-execute-keys-map-etc/1177/10) that “Kakoune is a very punk-rock editor”. At the time I didn’t really _know_ much about punk, but the idea stuck with me and I felt it deserved further investigation. So, I spent some time reading up about punk rock on Wikipedia, listening to punk music, thinking about which parts of Kakoune resonated the most with those experiences, and then I wrote them down:

[Kakoune, a punk-rock text editor](https://gist.github.com/Screwtapello/563628f777f0fc9f4d5fb681058d63ec)