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Pros of Kakoune
Pros of Micro
  • 7
    Multiple selections
  • 7
    Fast editing
  • 5
    Interactivity
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    Consistency of the underlying language
  • 4
    UNIX citizen
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    Self documented
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    Great flexibility
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    Nice tooling

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What is Kakoune?

Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones. Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.

What is Micro?

Micro is a framework for cloud native development. Micro addresses the key requirements for building cloud native services. It leverages the microservices architecture pattern and provides a set of services which act as the building blocks

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