[omtose]

Kakoune[1] has been posted recently here on HN to great reception. As a C++ developer, I think it has a very high quality codebase, especially considering how non-trivial it is. As a user, it's been my main text editor for over a year. It also has a vibrant community, jump in on IRC if you have questions or ideas.

[1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

[zellyn]

I think getting Kakoune UI support into Xi would be a very interesting project…

[omtose]

Are you talking about Xi as a frontend for kakoune? If it's the UI part that you're interested in, there is also kakoune-qml[1] made by one of the regular uses.

[1] https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml

[zellyn]

I think creating a Xi frontend that mimicked Kakoune's modal keybindings and highlighting would be an interesting exercise, and probably stretch the set of supported ideas in Xi in a good way.