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…

For a list of linters that may be used alongside the support languages, refer to the Lint page.

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.
• Linting: linting is available through third-party programs, documented on the given link
• 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	Linting	formatcmd
AsciiDoc
C	✔	yes	astyle
			GNU indent
C++	✔	yes	astyle
Clojure		yes
CoffeeScript		yes
CSS		yes	prettier
D		yes	dfmt dfmt
elixir
elm			elm-format
fish			fish_indent
Go		yes	gofmt
HAML
HTML			reshape
Handlebars
Haskell		yes
INI
Java		yes
JavaScript		yes	prettier
JSON			jq prettier
Julia
Latex
Lua	✔
LISP
Makefile
Markdown
MoonScript	✔
Nim
Ocaml			ocp-indent
Perl			perltidy
PHP		yes
Python		yes	autopep8
			black
Pony
Pug
Ragel
Ruby	✔	yes	rubocop rubocop -x -o /dev/null -s '${kak_buffile}' | sed -n '2,$p'
Rust			rustfmt rustfmt
SASS & SCSS			prettier
Scala
Shell		yes
Swift
TUP
YAML			prettier
Zig			zig fmt zig fmt --stdin

Lint supported by the community:

• stylus
• typescript
• crystal
• elvish
• Context Free Art (CFDG)
• Mint
• Pixilang