# The Vim-Inspired Editor with a Linguistic Twist **URL:** \ **Category:** Resources\ **Created:** [September 14, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716 "2019-09-14T22:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/delapouite/32/10_2.png) [@Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Delapouite)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/1 "2019-09-14T22:06:21Z")
[https://cosine.blue/2019-09-06-kakoune.html](https://cosine.blue/2019-09-06-kakoune.html) ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/2 "2019-09-15T07:33:13Z")
> Maybe next year, Emacs. I really want to like you. So me. Also, judging by the site design (buttons), (they (love) (lisp) (or (something) (like that))). * * * Some notes: > # 6.3 Persistent configuration > > Let’s say you’ve mapped a few keys and set a few options. How do you make them persistent between kak(1) sessions? > > Create the file `$HOME/.config/kak/kakrc` and place your mapping and options in there. This is the analogue to one’s `$HOME/.vimrc` . > > When you start kak(1), before sourcing your `kakrc` it first sources all `*.kak*` files within your `$HOME/.config/kak/autoload/` directory. That means you can put anything—even Git repositories in there (i.e. plugins)—and all non-Kakoune files don’t cause Kakoune any grief.[7](https://cosine.blue/2019-09-06-kakoune.html#fn7) > > Once your `autoload` directory exists, however, Kakoune decides not to source the system run-time files under `/usr/share/kak/autoload/` , so you’ll want to link that system directory symbolically into yours: > > ```auto > mkdir $HOME/.config/kak/autoload/ > ln -s /usr/share/kak/autoload/ $HOME/.config/kak/autoload/ > > ``` I feel like most of users stumble on this problem of creating `autoload` and observing that editor no longer works. Then after some googling/reading man they understand that system `autoload` no longer works. It looks more like a bug for me, and that’s why I make plug.kak. > is by convention that the uppercase ‘WORD’ refers to whitespace-separated groups of characters, whereas the lowercase ‘word’ refers to consecutive runs of alphanumeric characters.[↩︎](https://cosine.blue/2019-09-06-kakoune.html#fnref1) Whitespcace separated? I guess they mean that WORD includes non word characters as part of a WORD, but not whitespace. > GNU readline(1) is the line-editing library used by countless terminal-based programs. I now use Emacs bindings in Readline, because they differ enough from Kakoune that I don’t get confused.[↩︎](https://cosine.blue/2019-09-06-kakoune.html#fnref8) Kakoune supports some readline shortcuts in the prompt area, which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![chambln](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/chambln/32/309_2.png) [@chambln](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/chambln)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/3 "2019-09-16T08:18:27Z")
Hey, thanks for posting my article here! > > is by convention that the uppercase ‘WORD’ refers to whitespace-separated groups of characters, whereas the lowercase ‘word’ refers to consecutive runs of alphanumeric characters.[↩︎](https://cosine.blue/2019-09-06-kakoune.html#fnref1) > > Whitespcace separated? I guess they mean that WORD includes non word characters as part of a WORD, but not whitespace. I didn’t know how else to describe it really. By whitespace I mean spaces, tabs and newlines. > Kakoune supports some readline shortcuts in the prompt area, which is nice. Yeah but they’re not quite the same, which is a bit frustrating at times. Alt+f and Alt+b for example should skip symbols and punctuation characters. ---
**Author:** ![nonumeros](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/90ced4/32.png) [@nonumeros](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/nonumeros)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/4 "2019-09-17T11:23:47Z")
Welcome to the forum @chambln - since no one welcomed me, I will welcome you! Looking forward to other articles. ---
**Author:** ![TeddyDD](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/teddydd/32/21_2.png) [@TeddyDD](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/TeddyDD)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/5 "2019-09-19T19:14:35Z")
I love the pandoc emoji trick 💚 Good read @chambln, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/delapouite/32/10_2.png) [@Delapouite](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Delapouite)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/6 "2019-09-23T12:45:47Z")
Related discussion on reddit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/d7b6y1/the\_viminspired\_editor\_with\_a\_linguistic\_twist/](https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/d7b6y1/the_viminspired_editor_with_a_linguistic_twist/) ---
**Author:** ![TeddyDD](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/teddydd/32/21_2.png) [@TeddyDD](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/TeddyDD)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/the-vim-inspired-editor-with-a-linguistic-twist/716/7 "2019-09-23T19:21:20Z")
Lobsters thread: [https://lobste.rs/s/rukhsx/vim\_inspired\_editor\_with\_linguistic](https://lobste.rs/s/rukhsx/vim_inspired_editor_with_linguistic) I forgot to post it here, sorry