[aquariusDue]

As someone deeply invested in Emacs who had a short fling with Kakoune a few years ago I'm super curious how did you manage the transition? I have lots of notes in org-mode and rely on packages like Magit and so on, due to that I'm always wary of the fact that a lot of my computer use flows through Emacs (for better or worse).

Also one thing that intrigues me about Kakoune is the possibility of writing CLI utils in whatever language and then calling them from Kakoune. The same can be done from Emacs but generally you'd go for Elisp instead.

I've also found I miss fancier text decoration like subscripts, bold, italics, underline and mixing monospace with another font when not using Emacs.

[xlii]

Obviously Kakoune is much simpler than Emacs, so face variability, very interactive UI is not there (though there'd be nothing preventing writing it, but I doubt anyone wants it enough).

As for transition - I always was somewhat of an UNIX guy, so I replaced Swiper/Occur/Consult with delegating to shell. Kakoune has just enough utilities to create a on-keystroke-updated-buffer so I'm happy with that. In some languages I go as much to create "find functions" special mode - composition with shell is easier than Lisp - I rarely have to read documentation.

For Git I use Jujutsu (so I stopped using Magit long time ago) but Kakoune has a very nice "!commmand<ret>" utilities. It's nothing more than a "C-u M-!", but positioning of feature differs.

So the transition is mainly about delegation, not sticking to one application, but instead finding utility that does it and use that instead.