As a convention, many commands respect thetoolsclient,docsclient andjumpclient options. These string options store the name of the client to use.toolsclient will be used for:make and:grep commands, when an entry is selected in them, they will try to open the file in thejumpclient client. The:man and:doc commands will display their content in thedocsclient.

If neither of those options are defined, it will fallback on the current client.

Here's a small snippet you can trigger to launch multiple clients and bind them to the right options:

def ide %{    rename-client main    set global jumpclient main    new rename-client tools    set global toolsclient tools    new rename-client docs    set global docsclient docs}

Then it's up totmux or your window manager (dwm, i3, xmonad…) to fit them correctly on your monitor.

At times, it can be useful to override/extend your configuration based on the local directory. For example, you may want to set options only for certain projects, etc. For this, you can implement a simple.kakrc file to be run automatically when you open Kakoune inside that project.

To implement naive autoloading, you may add the following snippet to yourkakrc:

# Source a local project kak config if it exists# Make sure it is set as a kak filetypehookglobalBufCreate (.*/)?(\.kakrc) %{set-optionbufferfiletype kak}try %{source .kakrc }

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