Kate Turning 10 Years Old

[dimmuborgir]

Probably the most underrated text editor. It pains me to no end that KDE and its applications don't get the attention they rightly deserve.

[s-phi-nl]

Even if KDE did get more attention, on openSuSE (which seems to have a fairly large proportion of KDE users compared to other distros) Kate does not come preinstalled even with KDE. Anyone know why?

[kraemate]

Kate really combines all the good KDE features, in particular its usage of Kparts is excellent. You get complete shell integration, tabs, snippets, loads of plugins, split-views, highlighting etc. The most feature complete editor after emacs, probably.

[kunley]

Does it have buffers (as opposite to files) abstraction, ie. can you open the same file in different windows and work on different parts of it?

[alexis-d]

Are you kidding? Vim has all the features you listed and many more...

[rplnt]

I love the variable coloring. Been using Kate for one C project (inside the KDevelop) and had no problems with it.

[nfm]

"The most feature complete editor after emacs, probably."

That's a pretty bold claim, particularly given the subset of features you listed!

[dekken_]

Anybody know a way to hook windows/cygwin into the terminal on the windows version of kate?

It's highly unlikely but doesn't hurt to ask. :)

[patches]

It's available in the Cygwin/X11 version of KDE from Cygwin Ports http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/

There has been talk of porting Konsole to native Windows, but thus far no action.

[scotty79]

My text editor of choice for many years.

[coffeeaddicted]

Yeah, for me as well. But currently using scite because I haven't figured out yet how to disable all the warning messages which kate prints when started from console in Debian Squeeze. Anyone got an idea?

[zem]

if kate had ever included a stable, usable vimpart, it would have been my ideal editor.

[jacobr]

Vim mode for Kate was a GSoC project, expect improvements soon.