Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins

Kasane

Kakoune handles editing. Kasane rebuilds the rendering pipeline — terminal or GPU — and opens the full UI to extension: splits, image display, workspace persistence, and beyond. Extend it yourself with sandboxed WASM plugins — a complete one fits in 15 lines of Rust. Your kakrc works unchanged.

GPU backend ( --ui gui ) — fuzzy finder, pane splits, and color preview are all WASM plugins

Getting Started · What's Different · Plugin Development · Vision

What You Get

alias kak=kasane and these improvements apply automatically:

Flicker-free rendering — no more tearing on redraws

— no more tearing on redraws Multi-pane without tmux — native splits with per-pane status bars

— native splits with per-pane status bars Clipboard that just works — Wayland, X11, macOS, SSH — no xclip needed

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