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Meet Kate, the Cyber Woodpecker, the new mascot of KDE's Advanced Text Editor (kate-editor.org)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

When will it come to Super Tux Kart though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Ooooh this is legit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Kate does seem like it could potentially be a good alternative to Sublime Text. If only it supported LSP and had a better add-on management!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Actually Kate does support LSP via plugin: https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-01-01-kate-lsp-client-status/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

What's your experience with it? Is it worth it to switch, or is there not so much support?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Well, it's not hugely popular nor does it have tons of money behind it, so if you're looking for an editor with hundreds of plugins, you'll be disappointed here.

But if you're looking for a text editor that's open-source, not heavy on resources and not arcane (a.k.a. Vim or Emacs), then it's among the most powerful you can find.

And like, that's one of my favorite aspects of it. There isn't much of a "switch" necessary. It largely behaves in obvious ways. It's a utility, not a life investment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

I like Kate a lot, it starts up very fast. I use it for one-off editing (or looking into) files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

If you are on KDE/Plasma there is not real way around it anyway. Kate is more or less two parts...the kate shell and the KTextEditor framework. And the KTextEditor framework is used in several programs..kdevelop, kwrite, kile..I think also kmail uses it for writing emails.

So I don't really use kate that much directly....for single config file edits I use kwrite and for development usually kdevelop. But improvements to kate usually make it to those programs through KTextEditor as well so I am always happy about new kate versions.

As standalone programming editor kate works well enough. It's old and mature. Lacks some features of sublime and has some others sublime lacks. If you are into vim the vi-mode of kate (actually KTextEditor, works in other programs too) might be interesting. I still prefer a full IDE like kdevelop, I can't do without their variable-highlighting anymore but kate is a very capable editor for programming nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

lol I'm not a programmer myself

But before I posted here I showed Kate to a friend of mine that does programming and he was surprised that this hadn't been more featured, him usually using VScode. But I haven't heard if it made it possible for him to stop using VScode.

They also have a IRC where you can talk with the team; #kate at irc.kde.org)

There might be someone here who can answer something more clear, but it's worth a try I think.