Kate or Kwrite?

[NickStone]

I've just recently returned to kde and discovered that Kate and kwrite have been installed during installation. On the face of it I cannot see much difference between the two. Just out of curiosity which one do you prefer or use if any?

[jglen490]

There isn't much difference. Kwrite is based on kate, but is designed to integrate better with KDE. I like kate, personally, as a purely text writer, but I'm sure kwrite is just as capable. It's the whole Linux choice thing - once again.

[whatthefunk]

Neither. They are fine for very general stuff, but thats about it. Sublime is a great general editor, but its not open source and technically you're supposed to pay for it.

[blasphemy]
You want a superior editor that costs nothing and is open source? Microsoft's VS Code is fantastic. I switched to it from Sublime a few months back and haven't looked back since. It has thousands of plugins, is super fast, has great git and debug integration, and is being actively developed.
Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Site: https://code.visualstudio.com/
[/blasphemy]

[Goeroeboeroe]

Neither. They are fine for very general stuff, but thats about it. Sublime is a great general editor, but its not open source and technically you're supposed to pay for it.

[blasphemy]
You want a superior editor that costs nothing and is open source? Microsoft's VS Code is fantastic. I switched to it from Sublime a few months back and haven't looked back since. It has thousands of plugins, is super fast, has great git and debug integration, and is being actively developed.
Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Site: https://code.visualstudio.com/
[/blasphemy]

Ah, glad I'm not the only sinner. I switched a month ago from Komodo to Visual Studio Code, because Komodo became very slow with lots of bugs.
It's from Microsoft, but open source. Best editor I've ever worked with.
If you had told me five years ago my main editor would be something from MIcrosoft, I would have called a medic. But it looks to me it's pretty loose from the 'real' Microsoft. Anyway, this is a better attitude then calling Linux cancer...

[jglen490]

Yep, it comes down to your use case for a text editor. On the other extreme, Leafpad (and others like it) are really compact and do a great job on pure notes not related to code writing. For note writing Leafpad is smaller and lighter, but produces text files just a well as kate.

So here we go, Linux - choices, choices, choices!

[GreyGeek]

IMO, there is a huge difference between Kate and KWrite in the way they handle lots of files simultaneously.
I can open over 1,000 text files at once in Kate and search them for a word or phrase. A double panel opens on the right side with the files selected out of the 1,000+ listed in the bottom panel and when I click on one of the files listed in the bottom panel the text file opens in the top panel with the word or phrase highlighted. I've sued this feature many times.

KWrite chokes on a couple hundred files.

[MoonRise]

I agree with GG. Kate has been great here and handles the coding I do.

[Rod J]

I like using Geany for coding bash scripts and test running them too (it's a simple IDE). It's in the repository.

[chimak111]

I like using Geany for coding bash scripts and test running them too (it's a simple IDE). It's in the repository.

It has a lot of nice plug-ins as well!

[DoYouKubuntu]

I like Kate well enough and use it for specific purposes, but for day-to-day text stuff I use KWrite...when I'm not using vi, that is.