Languages

The programming languages listed on this page have built-in support in kakoune through the use of rc files.

This encompass such common operations as highlighting, indenting, tagging, building, debugging, linting…

Columns in the following table:

• Name: points to the source file of the related kak script.
• Alt File: the script creates an alt command to switch between related buffers, for example switching between .c and .h files in C.
• lintcmd: the language can be linted by this command external tool
• formatcmd: the language can be formatted through this external command, but you need to plug in explicitly in your kakrc. Example with rust using a hook:

hook global WinSetOption filetype=rust %{
  set window formatcmd 'rustfmt'
}

Name	Alt File	formatcmd	lintcmd
AsciiDoc
C & C++	✔	astyle
Clojure
CoffeeScript			coffeelint
CSS		prettier	stylelint
D		dfmt
elixir
elm		elm-format
Go		gofmt	golint
HAML
HTML		reshape
Handlebars
Haskell			hlint
INI
Java			checkstyle
JavaScript		prettier	eslint
JSON		jq prettier
Julia
Latex
Lua	✔
LISP
Makefile
Markdown
MoonScript	✔
Ocaml		ocp-indent
Perl		perltidy
PHP
Python		autopep8 black
Pony
Pug
Ragel
Ruby	✔	rubocop
Rust		rustfmt
SASS & SCSS		prettier
Scala
Shell			shellcheck
Swift
TUP
YAML		prettier

Languages supported by the community:

• stylus
• typescript
• crystal
• elvish