Migrating from Vim popular plugins

This page lists how tasks performed by popular Vim plugins can be executed by kakoune native commands.

tabular

https://github.com/godlygeek/tabular

Easily align text.

vim usage

from

one = 1
two = 2
three = 3
four = 4

:Tab/=

to

one   = 1
two   = 2
three = 3
four  = 4

kakoune usage

• select all buffer %
• select all = chars with s=
• use the align command &

vim-exchange

https://github.com/tommcdo/vim-exchange

Easy text exchange operator for Vim.

vim usage

cx

On the first use, define the first {motion} to exchange. On the second use, define the second {motion} and perform the exchange.

kakoune usage

Let's say we want to exchange the words bananas and chocolate in the following sentence :

I like bananas but I prefer chocolate

• select the word bananas
• save this selection to the default mark register (^) with Z
• select the word chocolate
• append the previous selection from the default mark register with <a-z>
• rotate the selections content with <a-'>

Note that this approach is not limited to only 2 selections.