Kakoune

Modal editor focused on selections and efficiency

About Kakoune

Kakoune is a free, open-source modal text editor inspired by Vim with multiple selections as its core primitive. Key features include multiple selection editing, client-server architecture, rich text manipulation commands, and Unix tool integration. It is available free of charge from its official site, where the developers provide downloads, documentation, and updates for anyone who wants to install and use it.

Kakoune key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: editor, modal, open source, terminal
Official site: kakoune.org

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 776 tools. Alongside Kakoune, it includes Notepadqq, EmEditor, UltraEdit, EditPlus.

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