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Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by tedunangst »

speakspokespok wrote: post #12

Does anybody know why Kate wants to install pulseaudio on OpenBSD? This would be a perfect IDE. kate-23.08.4:libltdl-2.4.2p2: ok useradd: Warning: home directory `/var/run/pulse' doesn't exist, and -m was not specified kate-23.08.4:pulseaudio-17.0p0: ok kate-23.08.4:pcaudiolib-1.2: ok kate-23.08.4:espeak-1.51p2: ok kate-23.08.4:dotconf-1.3p0: ok kate-23.08.4:py3-xdg-0.28p2: ok kate-23.08.4:speech-dispatcher-0.11.5: o…

Openbsd pkg dependencies tend to be fairly coarse grained, so if you depend on KDE, you get all of KDE.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by speakspokespok »

tedunangst wrote: post #21
speakspokespok wrote: post #12

Does anybody know why Kate wants to install pulseaudio on OpenBSD? This would be a perfect IDE. kate-23.08.4:libltdl-2.4.2p2: ok useradd: Warning: home directory `/var/run/pulse' doesn't exist, and -m was not specified kate-23.08.4:pulseaudio-17.0p0: ok kate-23.08.4:pcaudiolib-1.2: ok kate-23.08.4:espeak-1.51p2: ok kate-23.08.4:dotconf-1.3p0: ok kate-23.08.4:py3-xdg-0.28p2: ok kate-23.08.4:speech-dispatcher-0.11.5: o…

Openbsd pkg dependencies tend to be fairly coarse grained, so if you depend on KDE, you get all of KDE.

thank you for the useful reply. :-)

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by kzrdude »

riidom wrote: post #3

Kate was, beside Dolphin one of my earliest and most positively surprising discoveries on KDE. Kate fulfills for me the role that Np++ had back in the windows days. I use it when I want to work file based and not project- or directory based.

Gedit with lots of plugins did the same for me in the early gnome 2 days.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by nonrandomstring »

Kate is a lovely editor. I wrote about half of Designing Sound with Kate before switching to Emacs near the end (to better handle code integration). What I appreciate is the ability to have a pane of files open and very quickly cut and paste between them.

Even though I am a baptised and confirmed Emacs disciple, I still never find the buffer orientation quite maps to files the way I want. Kate hit that sweet-spot in a file based workflow,

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by Lyngbakr »

I'd never heard of Kate and wondered if someone could explain what Kate's differentiator is versus other popular editors (e.g., Vim, Emacs, VSCode)? Is there something in particular that sets it apart or is it just a matter of taste?

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by sneak »

Lyngbakr wrote: post #26

I'd never heard of Kate and wondered if someone could explain what Kate's differentiator is versus other popular editors (e.g., Vim, Emacs, VSCode)? Is there something in particular that sets it apart or is it just a matter of taste?

vim and emacs are TUI; Kate is a GUI app.

VSCode is a full-fledged IDE; Kate is much simpler. Think of it as comparable to TextEdit or notepad.exe, but with more features.

It's definitely trending in the VSCode direction, but VSCode is full of surveillance and corporate API clients, and Kate is not.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by IshKebab »

Lyngbakr wrote: post #26

I'd never heard of Kate and wondered if someone could explain what Kate's differentiator is versus other popular editors (e.g., Vim, Emacs, VSCode)? Is there something in particular that sets it apart or is it just a matter of taste?

It's a lot lighter and faster than full IDEs like VSCode, and it also uses a modern GUI unlike Vim and Emacs. It's more like Notepad++.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by calvinmorrison »

p4bl0 wrote: post #14
riidom wrote: post #3

Kate was, beside Dolphin one of my earliest and most positively surprising discoveries on KDE. Kate fulfills for me the role that Np++ had back in the windows days. I use it when I want to work file based and not project- or directory based.

If you need to work file based and not project or directory based then you should probably be using Kwrite, which literary is a stripped down version of Kate specifically for this purpose.

Which shows how far ahead KDE was even in 3.5 times with reusable embeddable components that were highly engineered. For example Konqueror has a long list of plugins including calling kwrite to render inside of it. The early kio tooling that predates fuse in having universal access through a single file viewer.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by gerdesj »

topato wrote: post #9
shrimp_emoji wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like Dolphin is even better than Explorer, Kate is even better than Notepad++!

That is a wild accusation. I need to install a nightly of Kate and give it another chance, if it's truly as good as you say. Np++ is starting to annoy me, with it's constant reopening of like 50 files every time it's started lol.

N++ can tail and follow files and colour code the output. Smashing!

Kate recently opens a default start page which I now find annoying. Kate also opens all previously opened files by default.

All of these things are defaults that are easy to override but changing defaults can be annoying, especially when you have been used the previous defaults for more than a decade ...

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