> Do you find the temptation of the plugins to strong to resist?
In a sense... I kept seeing vim plugins promoted as a way
to make my life more awesome, but every time I tried one
it was incredibly slow and I bounced back to vanilla vim.
Not only that, but I kept getting burned every time I would
try what seemed like simple customizations, like adding a
few extra pieces of information to the status bar. After
the Nth time I went to open a 50M file and had vim lock
up on me, I reverted my .vimrc.
> Plain vim doesn't seem much more bloated than in the past.
It's not, and to be fair to vim you can build a pretty lean
version of it if you want to. But the fact that all of the
creaky vimscript machinery is there behind the scenes was
starting to bother me.
That alone wouldn't have been enough to bounce me to kak,
but when I tried it, it immediately overwrote 20 years of
vim muscle memory and I had a lot of trouble switching
back. I had been using visual mode a lot in vim, and I
always felt a little bad about it -- like if I'd been better
at ex I wouldn't have had to use visual mode as much. Kak's
editing paradigm is all about selections anyway, so I'm a
lot more comfortable using it than I ever was with vim.
> How is kakoune in practice? I've been eyeing it as well but was waiting for it to mature a bit.
It's mature enough for me -- I've been building it from
master every couple of days, and crashes are very unusual.
The tmux integration is amazing. I always hated having
vim splits inside of tmux panes inside of i3 windows, and
now I don't.
How is kakoune in practice? I've been eyeing it as well but was waiting for it to mature a bit.