When comparing Vrvana Totem vs Kakoune, the Slant community recommends Kakoune for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?” Kakoune is ranked 27th while Vrvana Totem is ranked 46th. The most important reason people chose Kakoune is:
Kakoune first started as a rewrite from scratch of vim, but then ended up being another text editor altogether. So it's inspired in a lot of ways from vim.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good position tracking
Thanks to two front facing cameras the position tracking can work more accurately as well as display Augmented Reality to both eyes through separate cameras, making for a more real experience.
This also eliminates the need for external sensors, as the two cameras can be used to calculate depth.
Pro Will be familiar to vim users
Kakoune first started as a rewrite from scratch of vim, but then ended up being another text editor altogether. So it's inspired in a lot of ways from vim.
Pro More modern than vim
Pro Good UNIX citizen
It follows the UNIX philosophy by doing one thing well (text editing) and interfaces nicely with other CLI tools.
Pro Text selection mechanism
Kakoune works on selections, which are oriented, inclusive range of characters, selections have an anchor and a cursor character. Most commands move both of them, except when extending selection where the anchor character stays fixed and the cursor one moves around.
Pro Very expressive
Kakoune provides a very expressive set of commands, including various objects selection (paragraph, blocks, words), alignment support, conditional selection filtering...
This set of command is expressive enough to implement all the provided auto indentation logic.
Pro Actively developed and supported
Pro Self-documenting
A helper pops up when typing commands.
Pro Simpler and more consistent than Vim
Some keys select, other keys operate on the selections. Shift
is used to extend the selection, alt
is used for alternative behavior, e.g. reverse the search direction. No inconsistencies like Y
which means yy
and not y$
in Vim.
Cons
Con May not be available to individual consumers
The company producing this VR headset is not big enough to go into production themselves for the mass market ad will most likely sell the unit on a business to business basis, meaning it is not meant to be for consumers at the start.
Con Small community
Con No real Windows support
Will compile under CygWin.