coming from vim, especially if you’ve used a lot of plug-ins, initial Kakoune
setup can be challenging
Because ok Kakoune’s minimalistic nature, a lot of vim-like niceties can be
hard to configure
For browsing buffers and files, pick you menu-like tool of choice (fzf, dmenu,
wofi etc) and define commands in Kakoune that interact with the menu
Searching file contents can also be delegated to an external UI, however
Kakoune provides a somewhat integrated solution: a customizable grep command
that executes you shell program of choice (eg ripgrep) and populates a new
buffer with the results. It’s easy to navigate with previous/next commands
LSP was easy to configure; compared to Neovim’s new integrated LSP, kak-Lsp
works almost out of the box with minimal requires configuration. It’s fast and
has support for a wide range languages.