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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Kakoune
 Introduction:
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-    Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by vim, as such most of it's
+Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by vim, as such most of it's
 commands are similar to vi's ones.
 
 Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode,
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.
 There is no concept of cursor in kakoune, only selections, a single character
 selection can be seen as a cursor but there is no difference internally. 
 
+Building
+--------
+
+Kakoune dependencies are:
+ * GCC >= 4.6
+ * boost
+ * ncurses
+
+To build, just type *make* in the src directory
 
 Basic Movement
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