Kakoune, when pasting a something with newlines in it, will paste below or above the last & first line of the selection rather than merely before or after the selection. This behavior in vim (another text editor [and the one that kakoune started its existence off of as a fork of]) is known as line-wise selection. Literal character for character pasting is known as character-wise selection. This plugin provides the character-wise selection functionality that is otherwise missing in kakoune when pasting text.
This plugin will remap normal mode's mappings p, P, <a-p> & <a-P> that are used for pasting to the functions character-wise-paste-after, character-wise-paste-before, character-wise-paste-sel-after & character-wise-paste-sel-before. Furthermore this plugin will provide the functions listed above to be used elsewhere (building other, functions, plugins, etc.).
A boolean option called character_wise is provided and a hook triggered to remap and a hook to unmap as stated above when character_wise is globally set to true and false respectively. <c-p> sets character_wise to true & <c-P> sets it to false.