Vim has been the darling child of the Linux community since its conception. Vim is, apart from Vi, probably the most used text editor on Linux. And that’s for good reason. Vim is super fast, extremely efficient, and has very sensible, albeit, hard to adjust to keybindings. But even though Vim is without flaws, it isn’t without some room for improvement. In fact, there is another text editor, that takes the core fundamentals of Vim, and builds on them to make an even better, even more programmer friendly editor. And it is very possible that you’ve never heard of it before. Kakoune is a super fast, easy to adapt to, and very efficient text editor that allows you to do everything that you would need to do in Vim, faster and with less keystrokes. I installed and played around with this editor, and I am going to give the overall rundown of how to use it, some of it’s features, and some things that make it so unique.