[johtela]

I have to admit that I haven't used Kakoune myself. I just like its approach of taking the good parts of Vim and adapting them to more "mainstream" style of editing.

Because Kakoune's editing operations are much closer to VS Code than Vim's, I think you can copy its functionality quite extensively with ModalEdit. The only limitation is that VS Code itself needs to have the commands to support these operations. The configuration involves just binding key sequences to the commands. However, VS Code marketplace has so many command extensions, so I bet you can find substitutes for most Kakoune features there.

Regarding the literate configuration, there is no Jupyter-style online editor for it, afaik. I use (of course) VS Code to edit my `settings.json` file. In the background I run [LiTScript][1] in watch mode to generate the documentation on the fly. I also use the [Live Server][2] extension to automatically reload the generated documentation when it has been changed. With this setup, saving the `settings.json` file causes VS Code to reload the configuration, LiTScript to generate the updated documentation, and Live Server to reload it automatically. So, it is almost like Jupyter in the sense that you see your changes in effect immediately.

[1]: https://johtela.github.io/litscript/ [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickd...

[jarpineh]

Thank you. I'll be sure to check ModalEdit. Since VS Code is so easy to extend I guess I'll just have to find what things to copy over from Kak. Since Kak can be used as a server also (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC) I can send stuff over to it for more extensive editing.

I'll check the LitScript also. Yours sounds like quite a workable workflow.