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Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by signaru »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #29
p4bl0 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

KHTML also led to WebKit then Blink.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by derbOac »

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?

I've been using Kate for long time. I try other things but seem to gravitate back to Kate.

It's relatively resource efficient and fast, very full-featured, open source, and I can use it on different OSes and it's pretty much the same everywhere. Also it's GUI, and has a standard GUI UX.

I've never really had any problems with it at all until I started using it on ARM MacOS, where there were some weird bugs with filenames during saves (no corruption or anything, but would default to weird things and occasionally crash if the "wrong" filenames were used); but then the most recent major version seemed to fix all the problems.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by dang »

Related. Others?

Kate Editor Features - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37231529 - Aug 2023 (18 comments)

Integrated Terminal on Windows in KDE Kate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34824467 - Feb 2023 (1 comment)

Kate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34697173 - Feb 2023 (23 comments)

Kate – New Features – August 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32585221 - Aug 2022 (1 comment)

Kate 22.08 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32219281 - July 2022 (6 comments)

Kate is a fantastic text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29623909 - Dec 2021 (1 comment)

KDE Advanced Text Editor: A Feature-Packed Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26972858 - April 2021 (1 comment)

Kate Editor: Search In Files and Multi-Threading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25969409 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

The Kate Text Editor in 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25592677 - Dec 2020 (5 comments)

The Kate text editor is 20 years old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424735 - Dec 2020 (81 comments)

Kate is soon 20 years old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25030096 - Nov 2020 (12 comments)

Kate – A Qt Text Editor for Linux, MacOS and Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16558407 - March 2018 (2 comments)

Kate Turning 10 Years Old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2876471 - Aug 2011 (20 comments)

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by andmarios »

Kate was one of the main reasons I switched to Linux in 2004/2005.

I had a lab in MySQL, and back then, the only option to develop in Windows was MySQL Workbench, which was as heavy as it got. Running an SQL statement was painfully slow, and iteration cycles were huge.

In Linux, you would write your SQL in Kate, and run MySQL's cli in the embedded terminal. Once ready, you would click the button “pipe to terminal". Instant run. What took many minutes in Windows took less than 2 seconds in Linux. How can you not love this?

Another reason was Amarok, an (the) mp3 player. Do you like how Spotify and other providers create automatically infinite playlists, radios, etc based on your tastes? Yes, KDE had this since 2002 I think? It was first copied by iTunes, then by Spotify, and now is considered a standard function. :)

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by g8oz »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #5
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.

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

The last time I checked Kate could not do basic line operations like remove empty lines, duplicate line etc.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by jchmbrln »

andmarios wrote: post #45

Kate was one of the main reasons I switched to Linux in 2004/2005. I had a lab in MySQL, and back then, the only option to develop in Windows was MySQL Workbench, which was as heavy as it got. Running an SQL statement was painfully slow, and iteration cycles were huge. In Linux, you would write your SQL in Kate, and run MySQL's cli in the embedded terminal. Once ready, you would click the button “pipe to terminal". I…

Yes! When I started using Kate on Linux ca. 2005, I was coming from Notepad on Windows and couldn’t believe how nice it was. I believe it was my first experience of syntax highlighting.

And Amarok! I haven’t thought of that in a while. Losing Amarok was my single biggest regret when I became a Max user. I’ve not used anything since that came close.

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