I used Kate fulltime up to the moment that I moved away from KDE due to the KDE3.0 fiasco. I took that moment to finally really learn Vim. Kate is lightweight

I used Kate fulltime up to the moment that I moved away from KDE due to the KDE3.0 fiasco. I took that moment to finally really learn Vim. Kate is lightweight yet versatile; despite what the screenshots might suggest. This is due to the extremely well-done integration in KDE: for example, the file browser is (was?) really just the file browser konqueror from KDE, Kate has to do hardly anything for that, just "wrap" it. Same for syntax highlighting, terminal, snippets, keybindings, windows chrome, and so on. Kate is really mostly a neat wrapper around a lot of existing KDE parts and libs (and that is an achievement, I don't mean that negatively). With Vim, I often say "Unix is my IDE", with Kate that could be translated to "the Desktop Environment is your IDE".