Kakoune vs Notepad++

Kakoune vs Notepad++: What are the differences?

Kakoune: Vim inspired — Faster as in less keystrokes — Multiple selections — Orthogonal design. 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.; Notepad++: Free source code editor and Notepad replacement. Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Kakoune and Notepad++ belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kakoune are:

• Multiple selections as a central way of interacting
• Powerful selection manipulation primitives
• Powerful text manipulation primitives

On the other hand, Notepad++ provides the following key features:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding: screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3 and screenshot 4
• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace

"Fast editing" is the top reason why over 6 developers like Kakoune, while over 94 developers mention "Syntax for all languages that i use" as the leading cause for choosing Notepad++.

Kakoune is an open source tool with 4.85K GitHub stars and 354 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kakoune's open source repository on GitHub.