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dvcrn / proton

space-atom. spacemacs and sublimious style editing in atom
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Replace vim with kakoune. #249

Open AnthonyJacob opened 7 years ago

AnthonyJacob commented 7 years ago

I have recently stumbled upon kakoune. It looks like it could go really well with spacemacs (proton) as a replacement for current vim mode plus.

Why should Proton use Kakoune instead of vim?

Because Proton is not meant for advanced vim users. It is meant for people who met vim, liked the style of editing, but were not happy with the steep learning curve. That means they probably know what basic commands like dd do, but they are far from fluent and they will have to use google once they want to do anything more sophisticated.

Kakoune solves this very well: it is interactive, it is discoverable, it is familiar, it is fast (in terms of keystrokes).

dvcrn commented 7 years ago

Proton is leveraging other plugins for keybindings and doesn't implement them by itself. If you find a cool atom plugin implementing the kakoune style of editing, it should definitely be possible to integrate it!