> Small and understandable core.
> Proficiency with POSIX tools, and maybe even some programming languages other than sh.
> Structural regular expressions as a central way of text manipulation.
> With multiple selections created via regular expressions, acting upon regular expressions.
> Fresh take on the modal editing paradigm.
I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises
Yes.
https://github.com/martanne/vis/wiki/Differences-from-Kakoun...
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki#onboarding
> which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises
Not very motivated for such a harsh critic..
vis is cool but its structural regular expressions are much less easier to use since kakoune's give you feedback in real time. it is nice that vis actually has a lua API though.
> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises
Same goes for Sam…