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I'm sorry... but "kak"?

I love/like vi[m], I love/like emacs... I ... never mind lol

The new editing language does look great, and I like the idea of the piped filters... but I can't get over the name :-/

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Worth noting is "kak" is one of the (many) words in Dutch for "poo".

I dabble in vim and it's my editor for when I quickly want to change stuff whilst in a terminal, but not enough to be "proficient" in it. As others have noted, I feel there could be a massive gain in editing if I were to get more acquainted with the many vi commands, but the initial productivity penalty has stopped me more than once from making it my default editor. Kakoune's mental model of commands seems friendlier, so maybe it will stick :)

Hopefully this is a temporary name. Investing in branding upfront can be a waste of time but if it picks up, it might be worth a more thoughtout and friendly name.

Could be `kk`

And that is short for cancer in Dutch, used as a swear word.

Why not just "ki"?

Same here. «kaka» — poo/bad thing, «kakoune» — somebody who does lot of poo. :-)

However, «vi» means visual, while it is the least visual editor among popular editors, so I expect by analogy that kak will be very good editor. Keep fingers crossed. :-)

FAQ on various things and what the name means:

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/manpages/fa...

Which is funny, I read it as 書こうね (Let's write). Even fits in line with the growing fad of using Japanese in project names I've noticed the past 8~14 months or so.

Oh that makes a lot of sense, that's probably the origin of the name. The project is quite a bit older than that though (>4 years).

It's a new caledonian word, see https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/manpages/fa...

Mmh right, but that's not going to dispel my feeling that mawww is actually a weeaboo.

Thanks for digging into the docs and finding the actual meaning. I didn't see anything in the readme.md :)

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