Kakoune snippets

If / else statements

Kak script is fairly limited and it requires you to do things in shell blocks. I don’t particularly like to echo all commands from an %sh {} block, so I use this simple block to early return out of the command. For example I only want to execute the :ide command once, for every kakoune instance. Sometimes I am zoomed into a single window and accidentally try to execute the :ide command again. To prevent this I use an early return.

declare-option bool is_in_ide_mode 'false'
define-command ide  %{
    evaluate-commands %sh{
        if [ "$kak_opt_is_in_ide_mode" = "false" ]; then
            echo "echo 'Switching to ide'"
       else 
            echo "fail 'Already in ide mode'"
        fi
    }
    set-option global is_in_ide_mode 'true'

    # Actual implementation of command
}

Goto file in remote kakoune session

Start a kakoune session with kak -s <session_name> file.txt

From another terminal you can:

echo "eval -try-client %opt{jumpclient} %{edit {FILE_PATH} {LINE} {COLUMN}}" | kak -p godot

Using rust binaries to extent kakoune

kak-tree-sitter popup.kak