Kakoune: A Better Code Editor Heavily Inspired by Vim | Linux Today

Kakoune: A Better Code Editor Heavily Inspired by Vim

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Aaron Kili
May 16, 2018

Tecmint: Kakoune is a free, open source, powerful, interactive, fast, scriptable and very customizable code editor with a client/server architecture. It runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, and Cygwin. It is a Vi/Vim like modal editor which aims to improve Vi’s underlying editing model for more interactivity.

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Aaron Kili

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