alt.hn

5/21/2025 at 3:34:33 PM

Vim vs. Kakoune Puzzles

https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/vim-kakoune-puzzles-2025

by todsacerdoti

5/21/2025 at 8:33:06 PM

I don't know about other Vim users, but these incantations are foreign to me. I'd do most of it with "." or macros.

Also like, I love that this person loves Kakoune, and IMO that's sufficient. No need to be like "look how garbledy this Vim bullshit is".

by camgunz

5/21/2025 at 9:58:20 PM

In general this author is comparing robust vim solutions with golf-style solution in Kakoune (i.e. assuming the example is the only thing in the buffer).

I'm not saying multi-select and Kakoune's predicate-then-verb (instead of vim's verb-then-predicate) aren't cool, it's just that he has very strawman comparisons because the vim solutions could often be phenomenally simplified if the same assumptions were made in the comparison.

OTOH, I learned some cool Vim features from those incantations that may be handy in a pinch someday.

by drabbiticus