kak.nvim - Kakoune-like keybinds for Neovim

Changes keybinds in Neovim to use the Kakoune workflow

Prerequisites

• Neovim 0.7+

Installation

💤 lazy.nvim

From the Codeberg repo (recommended)

{
  "kak.nvim",
  url = "https://codeberg.org/mirge/kak.nvim.git",
  --version = "^5", -- if you don't want breaking changes
  event = "VeryLazy", -- load after other plugins, to avoid conflicts
  opts = {
    -- your configuration here
  },
}

From the GitHub repo

{
  "mirlge/kak.nvim",
  --version = "^5", -- if you don't want breaking changes
  event = "VeryLazy", -- load after other plugins, to avoid conflicts
  opts = {
    -- your configuration here
  },
}

Setup (if necessary)

-- you don't have to pass in the table to the setup function
require("kak").setup({
  -- your configuration here
})

Default options

{
  full = true, -- if set to false, it disables all keybinds except Normal mode c, d, x, y
}

Usage

Rebound keybinds

Normal mode

• c -> vc
• d -> vd
• x -> V
• y -> vy

Full mode

• <A-[ft]: Extend selection backwards with the key
• [HJKLWBEFT]: Extend selection with the lowercase key
• <A-[ai]>: Around/inside
• [hjkl]: Remove current selection
• [wbeft]: Create new selection with key
• <A-[wbe]>: Create new selection backwards with the key
• <A-j>: Join lines
• <A-[hl]>: Extend selection all the way to <motion> of the line
• g[hl]: Go all the way to <motion> of the line
• g[ge]: Go to buffer start/end
• g[tcb]: <key at the same place in [HML]>
• g[jk]: Go to buffer bottom/top

Visual mode

• gg: Go back to Normal mode first
• [ai]: Append/insert (to Insert mode) on the corresponding end of the selection