Hi everyone! I’m sorry to announce it this way, but currently I’m rather busy with my new job, and have almost no time that I can dedicate to maintaining and improving Kakoune plugins that I wrote during these years.
So I’ve decided to ask if someone willing to maintain some of the plugins. Here’s a list of plugins I think are good:
smarttab.kak - tab handling as in most other editors
Although all three can be improved. And these are the plugins, that I’m considering a failed effort, but someone might still find those useful:
powerline.kak - an advanced status line. I mainly think that this is a failed effort due to extremely cumbersome design.
kaktree - tree based file explorer. I don’t think that it was good idea to build file tree as a Kakoune buffer, even though I’ve defended this idea pretty hard.
tagbar.kak - list tags similarly to Vim’s taglist. With the implementation of LSP for Kakoune, I believe that this plugin is now redurant, and a similar plugin should be developed for LSP instead.
pmanage.kak - manage background processes. This was my final breath until I’ve gave up on using REPL from Kakoune, not due to the repl problems, but due to other synchronisation problems.
langmap.kak - toggle input language in insert mode only. Only works for 1 to 1 mappings, so all languages that have diacritics will not benefit from this plugin.
base16-gruvbox.kak - color scheme. Well, it’s opiniated, and I never seen much people using it.
My last effort was to rewrite plug.kak, but during design document writeup I’ve realized that I really have no time to do this, as I have too much new things to learn. Though, my highest hopes are that plug.kak will continue to live in one form or another, as I find it the most comfortable way of managing plugins across all editors that I’ve used. Plug.kak currently works fine, but a bit chaotic inside because of some quirks of POSIX sh implementations, and deserves a more clean rewrite, but I can’t do that, unfortunately.
So If anyone want to take care of any of these plugins, please let me know. Depending on method I’ll either indicate a maintained fork in README, or remove repository in favor of new one.
I really appreciate everything this community does, and @mawww’s work on Kakoune. Huge thanks for everyone for inspiration, ideas, suggestions, bug reports, merge requests, fun stuff, and everything else you guys do.
This is one of the most critical plugins in the community, it is vital we get a good maintainer for it, possibly even rolling it up into the formal project?
I’ve submitted a PR several years ago, but there was no interest at integrating this feature into the core package at the time. I was fine with it being a plugin, so… Well you can submit a new PR, I surely don’t mind
Thank you for your contributions, and best of luck with your future! I’d love to help out, but since I myself am very busy, would only be able to take on the load of 1, maybe 2 smaller plugins. I’ll check some of the plugins out and let you know if I can take them over.
Thanks! I’ve put a link to readme pointing to your repository. Feel free to ask, if you’ll have any questions on how plugin works – It’s a bit complicated, because I’ve experimented with modular structure
