I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, you're right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.

[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kwrite doesnt really exist on its own anymore. Its a slimmed down gui for kate now.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow you're right, it's basically just kate without some of the toolbars now. Hadn't used plain kwrite in a while.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

It also doesn't have Sessions.
Making it a better choice when you want to quickly open/create a file (the Session selection menu requires a lot of tabbing or using the mouse)

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We're almost like coding siblings lol

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, I came here to say that Kate is really nice. Even though I'm an emacs user and won't use it.

Nano, on the other hand, can't do almost anything, so I can't recommend that people make heavy use of it. It's ok for random small edits, but that's it. (By the way, YSK that you can set your terminal to use Kate as the default editor by setting the $EDITOR variable.)

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

KWrite is the standard text editor. Kate is the advanced one. The name actually literally stands for "KDE Advanced Text Editor"

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of distros preinstalling KWrite, though...?

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Huh, I did not know that any didn't. I just tried a bunch, and here is a quick breakdown of what was preinstalled on each:

Distro	Kate	KWrite
Bazzite	true	true
Debian	true	true
Fedora	false	true
KDE Neon	true	false
Kubuntu	true	false
Manjaro	true	true
openSUSE	true	false
SteamOS	true	true