Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI tried switching to this editor permanently from vim. The selection based movements are asurdly good, I could kill for something like this in vim. However I couldn't stick with it for two reasons. The first is when I went to figure out how to customise it, I found that the customisation is essentially vim like but weaker. Everything is hardcoded like it would be in vim but with less options. If you're used to Emacs insane customization, this is…
Discussion last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975052
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 461
- Total comments
- 205
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-31 | Kakoune – An experiment for a better code editorFirst breakout | Somasis | 143 | 34 |
| 2017-03-21 | Kakoune – Faster as in less keystrokes | notheguyouthink | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-11-14 | Kakoune code editor – A Modal, Faster coder editor | HugoDaniel | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-05-09 | Kakoune terminal code editor written in C++ | i5heu | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-06-03 | Kakoune | colinprince | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-01-18 | Kakoune Code EditorHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | michaelsbradley | 304 | 170 |
| 2023-11-03 | Kakoune Code Editor | thunderbong | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-01-27 | Kakoune | tosh | 5 | 0 |