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Hi. forgive me if this quesiton is so noobish. I've seen many recommends the Kate as the good text editor for programmers as well as for normal users, so I gave it a try but couldn't find why. It may be due to my ignorace but since I am new to Kde(mod) and whole linux environment, I decided to just ask right here. If anyone has any opinion or can point me to any direction like tutorial or something, I'll be really thankful.
Last edited by ssacong (2008-02-22 04:06:28)
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Hm, in most discussions on editors for *nixish systems the majority claims to use vim and strong minorities use emacs or eclipse. I didn't see kate recomended that often.
I personally use emacs but if I were interested in kate I would look into the newsgroup comp.editors (or something alike in your native language). Or in wikipedia.
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vim is to eclipse as openbox is to GNOME.
Most people consider vim to be the king of editors, but eclipse is a great environment if you need an IDE.
Personally, I didn't care for kate. Though, I'm slightly biased, because I don't care for much of KDE at all.
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See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33568
kate is only mentioned by one person if I count right. Even something called geany is mentioned more often.
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I like Kate because it has synthax highlighting, auto indentation AND a terminal emulator built-in. It's pretty much like Geany, just for KDE
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Hi. forgive me if this quesiton is so noobish. I've seen many recommends the Kate as the good text editor for programmers as well as for normal users, so I gave it a try but couldn't find why. It may be due to my ignorace but since I am new to Kde(mod) and whole linux environment, I decided to just ask right here. If anyone has any opinion or can point me to any direction like tutorial or something, I'll be really thankful.
Kate is an advanced editor for plain text files. It is still just a text editor, not and IDE. The same engine is used by default in some other KDE apps like kwrite and kdevelop, you could try them if kate is too light or too heavy for what you need.
I use kate based editors (kwrite, kate, kdevelop) a lot. I really like the way of syntax highlighting, no other syntax highlighting is as good for my taste. Other features are nice too - see the Tools menu. Kate in particular is useful for its savable sessions with multiple documents and command line in same window.
For tutorial, see the Kate handbook from the Help menu. I don't see why one would need a tutorial though, Kate is easy to use, pretty straightforward and most shortcuts are same as in Windows (unlike emacs or vi). So if you are not comfortable with it, just use something else, there's plenty of choice:
pacman -Ss editor
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Geany is a nice text editor
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Yet another kate user.
I use it mostly because it's rather stable, has syntax highligting and auto intendation. I could pretty much use any other editor with the same functionality but I haven't bother to find one. One more thing, kate use similar keyboard shortcuts (as default) as windows and I am pretty much used to these keys (even through I am not using windows) which makes vim and emacs not an option.
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I like to use kate too, when working with multiple files... else it's just kwrite. I like the syntax highlighting and the code folding.
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kate, geany, vim, they're all decent.
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I've used kate in the past (now use vim) and I'd say the greatest thing about kate is that it can take advantage of KIO slaves which makes editing files over ssh/ftp quick and easy. Besides that it's got nice defaults (highlights whitespace etc) and is a all-round nice basic editor.
What functionality are you after that's messing or having difficulty finding?
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Another Kate user here. I only miss one, simple feature, that made my life a lot easier with gedit: a good side pane filebrowser. The current one on Kate doesn't show files as a tree, so you need to navigate everywhere to find files, which is _plain boring_.
Hopefully, I will learn how Kate plugins work and do one to add this missing feature - I couldn't find any plugin for doing this, maybe anyone know one that exists already?
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I use Kate for simple text editing and Bash scripting, its cool.
Proud Ex-Arch user.
Still an ArchLinux lover though.
Currently on Kubuntu 9.10
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Kate is simple, and it gets the job done.
The built-in terminal and the ability to use sessions also help a lot.
And if you are already working with KDE, Kate fires up quickly enough.
I like Kate.
Some PKGBUILDs: http://members.lycos.co.uk/sweiss3
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Another Kate user here, i love it
I only miss one, simple feature, that made my life a lot easier with gedit: a good side pane filebrowser. The current one on Kate doesn't show files as a tree, so you need to navigate everywhere to find files, which is _plain boring_.?
Why not use the Kate FileTree Plugin
want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod
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Another Kate user here, i love it
freakcode wrote:I only miss one, simple feature, that made my life a lot easier with gedit: a good side pane filebrowser. The current one on Kate doesn't show files as a tree, so you need to navigate everywhere to find files, which is _plain boring_.?
Why not use the Kate FileTree Plugin
Looks exactly what I was looking for, thanks. But do you use it? I was unable to compile it here, first it complained about automake-1.9, I got around that, but later on if just fails to compile.
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