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 3 points 1 day 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 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day 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 day 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 8 hours 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)

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

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

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours 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
Fedora	false	true
KDE Neon	true	false
Kubuntu	true	false
Manjaro	true	true
openSUSE	true	false
SteamOS	true	true