BSD Portseditors/kakoune 2026.05.21 FreeBSD
Modal code editor with a focus on interactivity
- System
- FreeBSD
- Repository
- FreeBSD ports
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Last update
- Commit
6cfa7b99d7- License
- UNLICENSE
- Categories
- editors
- Package size
- 878.4 KiB, 3152.5 KiB installed
Description
Kakoune is a code editor that implements Vi's "keystrokes as a text editing language" model. As it's also a modal editor, it is somewhat similar to the Vim editor (after which Kakoune was originally inspired).
Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.
Kakoune has a strong focus on interactivity, most commands provide immediate and incremental results, while still being competitive (as in keystroke count) with Vim.
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.
See https://vimeo.com/82711574 for a short demo video.
In the other systems
| System | Port | Version |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD | editors/kakoune | 2026.05.21 |
| OpenBSD | editors/kakoune | 2026.05.21 |
| NetBSD | editors/kakoune | 2026.04.12 |
| DragonFly | editors/kakoune | 2024.05.18_1 |
| HardenedBSD | editors/kakoune | 2026.05.21 |
| GhostBSD | editors/kakoune | 2026.05.21 |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install kakouneFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/editors/kakoune/ && make install cleanTo depend on this port in another port's Makefile:
RUN_DEPENDS= kakoune>0:editors/kakounePackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | aarch64 | amd64 | armv6 | armv7 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD:14:latest | 2026.05.21 | 2026.05.21 | 2022.10.31 | 2025.06.03 | 2026.05.21 |
| FreeBSD:14:quarterly | 2026.05.21 | 2026.05.21 | n/a | 2025.06.03 | 2026.05.21 |
| FreeBSD:15:latest | 2026.05.21 | 2026.05.21 | n/a | 2025.06.03 | 2025.06.03 |
| FreeBSD:15:quarterly | 2026.05.21 | 2026.05.21 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:latest | 2026.05.21 | 2026.05.21 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:quarterly | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dependencies
As this port's Makefile names them.
Runtime 1
setsid: sysutils/setsid
The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.
Run dependencies 1
Required by 1
Configuration
Options name: editors_kakoune
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEBUG | off | Build with debugging support |
| DOCS | off | Build and/or install documentation |
- USES
- compiler:c++23-lang tar:bzip2
- Service scripts
- none
Files
Manual pages 1
- kak(1)
pkg-plist 219
- bin/kak
- libexec/kak/kak
- share/doc/kakoune/README.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/autoload
- share/kakoune/colors/base16.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/black-on-white.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/default.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/desertex.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/github.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/greyscale.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/gruvbox-dark.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/gruvbox-light.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/kaleidoscope-dark.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/kaleidoscope-light.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/lucius.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/palenight.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/plain.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/red-phoenix.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/reeder.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/solarized-dark-termcolors.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/solarized-dark.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/solarized-light-termcolors.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/solarized-light.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/tomorrow-night.kak
- share/kakoune/colors/zenburn.kak
- share/kakoune/doc/buffers.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/changelog.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/command-parsing.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/commands.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/execeval.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/expansions.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/faces.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/faq.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/highlighters.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/hooks.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/keymap.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/keys.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/mapping.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/modes.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/options.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/regex.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/registers.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/doc/scopes.asciidoc
- share/kakoune/kakrc
- share/kakoune/rc/detection/editorconfig.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/detection/file.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/detection/modeline.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/apl.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/arch-linux.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/asciidoc.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/awk.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/c-family.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/cabal.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/capnp.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/clojure.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/cmake.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/coffee.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/conf.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/coq.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/crystal.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/css.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/cucumber.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/cue.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/d.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/dart.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/dhall.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/diff-parse.pl
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/diff.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/dockerfile.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/elixir.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/elm.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/elvish.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/erlang.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/eruby.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/etc.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/exherbo.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/fennel.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/fidl.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/fish.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/forth.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/fsharp.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gas.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gdscript.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gentoo-linux.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/git.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/github.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gjs.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gleam.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gluon.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/go.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/graphql.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/gren.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/groovy.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/haml.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/hare.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/haskell.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/hbs.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/hjson.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/html.kak
- share/kakoune/rc/filetype/hyprlang.kak
The first 100 are listed.
distinfo 1
| File | Size | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| kakoune-2026.05.21.tar.bz2 | 639744 | be1deb3fe9808a0733ab1057309da380bb757307e8fdbb22dc478b674b6bad34 |
Master sites 1
- https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/releases/download/v2026.05.21/