Kate: The Best GUI Text Editor?

Today I talk about Kate, a text editor that has all the features.
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0:00 Intro
1:46 First Look
2:35 Features
4:09 The UI
6:40 Coding in Kate
8:39 Keybindings
10:06 Vi Mode is AWESOME!
12:28 The Settings
17:35 Wrapping Up

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[PinkyZKey]

Kate is great. I do a lot in CLI, but when it comes to text editing, I really enjoy my GUI because I'm an aspiring writer. I use Kate for quick editing, VSCode if I'm really getting into some code, and novelWriter if I'm writing my book (a lovely writing application in markdown with fully customizable syntax highlighting and separate themes for UI and document/syntax).

[POINTS]

I was not expecting you to choose Kate but as a KDE user, I too like Kate as a text editor. Kate follows KDE's slogan of simple by default, powerful when needed.

[kingofx]

IMO trying new things is the most fun part of the linux desktop experience.

[vmetal]

Matt is very humble. As always, watching his videos makes me feel like I'm chilling with a friend.

[fartzerelli]

When I found the"VI mode" option in Kate it made me appreciate KDE all that much more.

[tollertup]

When I first switched to Manjaro from wind*ws, I was surprised by the large software stack that they just throw at you (all the KDE apps). Kate was a very welcome surprise. I personally would say its a mix of Notepad++ and vscode, just taking the best parts of both and throwing in a nice set of tools as glue. Another one is Dolphin, man I wish Wind*ws explorer was that good before I switched, but now it's getting ads??
Great job KDE team!

[alexandruc.]

I switched to FreeBSD recently (because "I use arch btw" wasn't edgy enough) and there is no prebuilt vscode package there.
There is a "port" which I had to compile... it took 12h and 50+GB of space while compiling.
And that kind of opened my eyes and made me look more into non-Electron apps.
Helix and Kate were actually my first thoughts.

[CotyTernes]

I have been using Kate for years. Made the full switch to Linux for the final time a few years ago and rock Manjaro KDE currently (although considering taking the dive into Arch Sway) and I mainly use just the basic functions of Kate. For Markdown I was using ghostwriter. Now I figured out that I can enable the Document Preview plugin (you have to hit "Save" in the plugin menu lol) and just do my Markdown in Kate. I feel mixed about the document preview being white background as I use dark mode, but the preview is technically more accurate to reality. I'll have to play around a bit more and see if I'm okay with just getting rid of ghostwriter or not.
I have recently also been finding that I use terminal and workspaces more when I'm in a Window Manager instead of a Desktop Environment. I feel myself wanting to slip into Window Managers more and more lately...

[RenderingUser]

kate is without a dobut one of the most performant light weight gui code editors with the best feature set
ive used it for the longest time before i switched to nvim
kde is always so overpowered

[BGUK]

Kate (which I believe stands for "KDE Advanced Text Editor") has to be the best I've ever used. I use nano in the CLI, particularly for editing config files where I prefer not to use a GUI program. At the time of writing I have yet to try Vim so can't compare.

[kamolhengkiatisak]

I try both Vim and Nano and Nano has my vote. It looks pretty and does the job well for casual user like me who occasionally fiddle around with config setting.

[scotth]

need to take a look...btw the document overview I've heard it called a mini-map.

[vitormelo]

I like of Kate, is very simple configure and is very fast.

[longhoacaophuc]

I used kate a long time ago before moving to vim, it was quite good but the GUI is quite intrusive for me.

[TheAtariSan]

My favorite one's micro for terminal, way better than nano.

[vintprox]

I would replace Mousepad with Kate any time of the week, starting from today 😊

[anon_y_mousse]

I've used Kate off and on over the years and it's gotten very good. In fact I recommend it for anyone that doesn't like emacs or vim. It has great syntax highlighting and it's basically a full blown IDE. The only reason I don't use it is because it lacks a lot of presets for the vi input mode. For instance, I can't :cd with it, or :e an absolute path, unless there's a configuration option somewhere for either of those, but they should be default. And most important, it doesn't handle cursor wrapping. Hit the right arrow or l at the end of the line, if it doesn't jump to the start of the next line, it's a no go from me.

[JohnNo]

is anyone using Kate to edit remote files on other servers/machines ?
if yes how do you achieve that?

[TheLazyJAK]

Kind of reminds me of an open source version of Sublime text