Kamp

Kamp is a tool to control Kakoune editor from the command line.

Installation

From source

Requires Rust installed on your system.

Clone the repository and run cargo install --path .

Nix

With nix-env:

nix-env -iA kamp

With modern nix command:

nix profile install nixpkgs#kamp

Kakoune integration

Add following definition into your kakrc.

evaluate-commands %sh{
    kamp init -a -e EDITOR='kamp edit'
}

Provided scripts

The scripts need to be added to $PATH in order to use them.

script	function
kamp-buffers	pick buffers (fzf)
kamp-files	pick files (fzf)
kamp-nnn	pick files (nnn)
kamp-filetypes	set filetype (fzf)
kamp-lines	search lines in buffer (fzf)
kamp-sessions	attach session and pick a buffer
kamp-grep	grep interactively with fzf
kamp-fifo	pipe stdin into fifo buffer

Kakoune mappings example

Following mappings use tmux-terminal-popup as popup implementation.

alias global popup tmux-terminal-popup
map global normal -docstring 'files'          <c-f> ':connect popup kamp-files<ret>'
map global normal -docstring 'git ls-files'   <c-l> ':connect popup kamp-files backend=git<ret>'
map global normal -docstring 'buffers'        <c-b> ':connect popup kamp-buffers<ret>'
map global normal -docstring 'grep selection' <c-g> ':connect popup kamp-grep ''query=%val{selection}<a-!>''<ret>'
map global normal -docstring 'grep limit by filetype' <c-y> ':connect popup kamp-grep -t %opt{filetype}<ret>'

Shell integration

You may want to set the EDITOR variable to kamp edit so that connected programs work as intended:

export EDITOR='kamp edit'

Some useful aliases:

alias k='kamp edit'
alias kval='kamp get val'
alias kopt='kamp get opt'
alias kreg='kamp get reg'
alias kcd-pwd='cd "$(kamp get sh pwd)"'
alias kcd-buf='cd "$(dirname $(kamp get val buffile))"'
alias kft='kamp get opt -b \* -s filetype | sort | uniq' # list file types you're working on

Similar projects

• kks
• kakoune.cr
• kakoune-remote-control