KDE's Kate Text Editor Plans Improvements To Better Compete With Atom

[ALRBP]

Honestly. I think that if I could have a LanguageTool plugin for Kate (and Kile), I would be completely satisfied by that software. Built-in spellcheck is just, not working…

[ssokolow]

I agree with Spyro. Why do people think there is no market for a simple, light text editor? If I want solid language support and plugins, I'd install VSCode, Atom, Sublime-Text, or one of the other editors that already do that very well.

Don't be a Windows Phone, Kate, coming into a saturated market too late with half the features. Just be a text editor.

To be honest, I think that boat has already sailed. Kate's menus are so voluminous (not to mention having both tabs and that Documents sidebar thing, and support for split views) that I consider it to be more a pale competitor for gVim than a simple text editor.

I run Leafpad on my KDE desktop for that purpose and it does that job nicely, with the only feature that could be called "fancy" being a dumb/naive "Auto Indent" option that replicates the previous line's leading whitespace when you hit Enter.

[Daktyl198]

I agree with Spyro. Why do people think there is no market for a simple, light text editor? If I want solid language support and plugins, I'd install VSCode, Atom, Sublime-Text, or one of the other editors that already do that very well.

Don't be a Windows Phone, Kate, coming into a saturated market too late with half the features. Just be a text editor.

[SpyroRyder]

Does every text editor have to try to compete with Atom? Editors like Kate and Gedit are fine at the level that theyre at

[geearf]

Is there a valid reason to support both Kwrite and Kate at this point?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE's Kate Text Editor Plans Improvements To Better Compete With Atom

During this week's KDE Akademy 2019 conference there was some planning discussions around improving the Kate text editor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Kate-2019-Planning