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I used to love Kate, during the time of KDE 3.5. Kate was amazing for simple editing of multiple documents for small projects where a full IDE was overkill. Wi

I used to love Kate, during the time of KDE 3.5. Kate was amazing for simple editing of multiple documents for small projects where a full IDE was overkill. With KDE 4, Kate became "literally unusable" for me, because it no longer re-uses a word you searched for in other editor tabs. So you search for "size_t" in one open document and press F3 to go to the next ones. Then you open a different document and press F3, and it doesn't search for "size_t" anymore! In the KDE 3.5 version of Kate, that worked correctly. Also other things made search worse like integrating it in a tiny thing at the bottom rather than a proper dialog. I discovered and switched to Geany then, which is similar to Kate but better in almost all aspects and more configurable.

folkrav 6y ago
Tangential, but I'm quite happy you put "literally unusable" in quotes and made it clear you were talking about your own use case, and not criticizing the product as a whole based on how you prefer to work. Too often do I see people make the weird assumption that how they work is how everybody works, the proceeds to trash a product based on that assumption.
bachmeier 6y ago
> I used to love Kate, during the time of KDE 3.5. Same here. It greatly helped my move to a Linux-only desktop. > With KDE 4, Kate became "literally unusable" for me It's been a long time since the release of KDE 4, but that was what did it for me too (it's been so long I don't remember the specifics). I was able to keep using the 3.x version for a while. Once that started to become an issue, I moved basically everything to Geany. I just checked and I don't even have it installed - hard to believe, given how much I used to use it.