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This is a simple kakoune cheat sheet to help me (and readers) remember some very useful features.
To see kakoune in action.
Video showing various features in made with asciinema.
Official kakoune website (it has a video)
Use `Z` to mark start and `alt+z i` to select unti current position.
Type `C` to add a new cursor below your current cursor.
Type `space` to remove all cursors except one.
You have to use "disable hook" command before inserting text. This is done with `\i` with `\` disabling hooks.
When you make a selection, you can use `s` and type a pattern, this will create a new cursor at the start of every pattern match.
This is useful to make replacements for words or characters.
A pattern can be a word, a letter, or even `^` to tell the beginning of each line.
In kakoune there are often multiples way to do operations.
Go to first line, press `J` to create cursors below and press `X` to select whole lines of every cursors.
Press `Z` on first line, and `alt+z i` on last line and then press `X` to select whole lines of every lines.
Press `X` until you reach the last line.
Make a selection and type `|`, you are then asked for a shell command, you have to use `sed`.
Sed can be used, but you can also select the lines and split the selection to make a new cursor before each word and replace the content by typing it, using the `s` command.
For my blog I format paragraphs so lines are not longer than 80 characters. This can be done by selecting lines and run `fmt` using a pipe command. You can use other software if fmt doesn't please you.