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Use kakoune as an IDE
As a convention, many commands respect the toolsclient
, docsclient
and jumpclient
options. These string options store the name of the client to use. toolsclient
will be used for :make
and :grep
commands, when an entry is selected in them, they will try to open the file in the jumpclient
client. The :man
and :doc
commands will display their content in the docsclient
.
If neither of those options are defined, it will fallback on the current client.
Here's a small snippet you can trigger to launch multiple clients and bind them to the right options:
def ide %{
rename-client main
set global jumpclient main
new rename-client tools
set global toolsclient tools
new rename-client docs
set global docsclient docs
}
Then it's up to tmux or your window manager (dwm, i3, xmonad…) to fit them correctly on your monitor.
Read local kakrc file
It can at times be useful to override / extend your configuration based on the local directory, this can be done easily by just adding the following to your kakrc file
# Source a local project kak config if it exists
# Make sure it is set as a kak filetype
hook global BufCreate (.*/)?(\.kakrc\.local) %{
set-option buffer filetype kak
}
try %{ source .kakrc.local }
and then adding a .kakrc.local file to the place you launch kakoune from for a given project.
Buffer list
The Bar page explains how to add extra status bars.
Wiki Home Page
Onboarding
Keys
- Normal mode commands
- Avoid the escape key
- Implementing user mode (Leader key)
- Kakoune explain
- Kakoune TV
Editing
User Interface
Integration with OS and other tools
- Languages
- IDE
- Bar
- Kak daemon helper : 1 session per project
- Registers & Clipboard
- macOS tips
- Windows tips
- Fuzzy finders
- JSON-RPC UI
- bc
- Qalculate!
- wc
- Shell Scripting
- Manipulating dates with Chronic
- Integrating Other CLI apps