Hi all!
Really love Kakoune and have been using it full-time at my job and for personal project.
Not a fan of using plugins - I prefer to control and understand how my editor and tools work, I even do not use the built-in rc scripts, rather writing my own.
So, what happened is that I am struggling with organizing my Kakoune codebase.
It grew quite big at this point and became difficult to navigate and understand.
Also, I still want to add more features:
- Tree-view of high-level classes, interfaces, functions, etc of a buffer.
- Sticky headers like in here https://twitter.com/a_grebenyuk/status/1534359760308424711
- Semantic folding.
- Automatic resolution of git conflicts when it’s possible (perhaps, need to integrate an external tool).
- Semantic project tree based on packages/classes/modules rather than files.
So, as you see, there’s a lot to do, and I’m afraid that it’s going to be challenging to implement using Kakoune Script, or even another language, but as a bunch of unrelated micro projects. What I need is a standardazed, self-explorable API, preferrably, staticly typed, to ease scaling.
I enjoy working with typed pure functional programming (name Scala, Haskell, OCaml), and have been thinking about create a DSL in such language which then would be compiled into a Kakoune Script, and then maybe abstracting up to make the API more high-level and approachable.
I’ve started implementing that DSL in Scala starting with Kakoune options, but realised that it’s a quite challenging task to do - there lot’s of rules to consider like expansions, different option types, built-in options, etc.
So, my question is has anyone tried to achieve something similar?
Providing a unified Kakoune Script interface in another language, whatever it is?