Kakoune is the best text editor currently

You never enter insert mode unless you absolutely have to.
>Esc -> :i -> Enter -> Esc -> :i -> Enger
Is not really a thing.
>In regular text editors I don't have to switch modes to use a shortcut.
No but you have to use more uncomfy finger twist bindings.

kakoune seems ok but im already used to vim and it doesn't have anything that specifically seems worth the effort of switching over
it's all incremental improvements or horizontal movements at best

it saves key presses on the long run, unless you need to navigate 2 characters away or less.
not to mention not having to move your hands ALL TAHT WAY to grab the mouse

Last time I tried it it was quite slow, so no

>You never enter insert mode unless you absolutely have to.
How do you type then?

looks good user

by entering insert mode you troglodyte
if all you're doing is typing then you don't leave insert mode and you still don't have that retarded back-and-forth strawman

But then I need to correct something, and jumping around in vim insert mode is hard.

>mode-based
y i k e s

I tried Cockoune for a bit, I think vim is better. I feel like in Cuckoune, you need to hold shift all the time, which is super annoying. Also the plugin ecosystem is non-existant compared to vim.

It's just a matter of time you "realize" you're a """"""transbian""""""

sounds like you should use normal mode for moving around and insert mode for adding characters.

really though it's much easier to press escape or what ever you bind it to than grabbing the mouse.:wq

If it isn't extendible in Lisp then it's absolute shit

Esc is usually equivalent to C-[, just use that. Or bind something else to Esc, like C-_ (which is what C-/ actually emits, which is easier to press than C-[).

>Is Vim finished?
No. And it's liable to remain unfinished.

I use Vim and Mousepad.

I like that it's slowly getting to a point where I could use it. Kak.plug, kak-lsp and so on. Maybe in a while it can actually replace vim for my use. I personally find it syntactically more logical.

This is an excellent tip: I've gotten very used to using C-[ instead of Esc, and it works in most scenarios, such as in qutebrowser.

Is there a way to search the help?
Like in vim I would use :help followed by / to search for commands. What's the equivalent in kakoune?

:doc

Wasn't it :doc? But I recall it was a lot worse than vim's.

But it looks like :doc requires I know the name of the command I want to read the documentation for. How do I search all the documentation?

Can't even copy to system clipboard without additional configuration?
baka I'll stick to vim thanks.
github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Registers---Clipboard

Does vim do that now? Xclipboard support was one of the features I liked as I switched to neovim

What is this kuckone bullshit

If vim is compiled with clipboard support "+y will yank to the system clipboard.