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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:49:46 JST Aral Balkan

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   @Sandra This is why I love Helix Editor (which was inspired by Kakoune and uses the same approach).

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     Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:49:58 JST Sandra
     Kakoune explains its philosophy.
     
     As a longtime god-mode user I haven't understood the hype of Kakoune but now I see what's going on. Vi, vim, Doom etc all apparently use Verb→Object order. I can see how that'd be difficult to work with. God-mode has no consistent order, it's just a palimpsestic mishmash that's been hacked on since the seventies, but it is often enough Object→Verb (what Kakoune calls "selection first"). The underlying point/mark system from Emacs helps a lot there.
     
     http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html