Kakoune is a free, open source, modal text editor designed for developers. It is designed to allow for rapid, efficient and powerful editing of text files. Kakoune provides an intuitive and powerful modal interface for manipulating text. It has an interface that is very similar to the popular Vim editor, but is built around a different codebase and has many unique features. For example, Kakoune supports multiple selections, so you can edit multiple parts of a file at once. Additionally, it allows you to use macros to automate certain tasks, making it easier to make complex edits. Kakoune also offers syntax highlighting and tab completion for many popular programming languages. Kakoune is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Discontinued Appears to be abandoned. The last release was January 2016