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Kate
- strawpeople 4y agoWhy Kate and not VSCode?
- graypegg 4y agoI mean, you could swap in any editor for comparison. A quick skim of the homepage seems to say that it’s capable of everything an editor-that doesn’t-claim-to-be-an-IDE has to do. Some folks might value the lack of Microsoft involvement.
- bitigchi 4y agoIt is one of the best editors out there that does not cost an arm and a leg to operate.
- strawpeople 4y agoSince when does VSCode cost an arm and a leg to operate? Also saying it’s one of the best doesn’t explain why. I’m asking whether there is something distinctive about it.
- _chu1 4y agoTry running VS Studio with a Celeron and a gig of RAM
- strawpeople 4y agoAhh ok - so it’s good for low powered hardware. That’s a useful answer. Edit: corrected ‘old’ to ‘low powered’.
- skyyler 4y agoOld hardware isn't the only low-powered hardware.
- atahanacar 4y ago1. It's not an Electron "app", it's a native, compiled regular good old program. 2. From the VS Code website: "By downloading and using Visual Studio Code, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement. VS Code automatically sends telemetry data and crash dumps to help us improve the product." 3. Why not vim?
- notRobot 4y agoWhat cross-platform (or GNU/Linux) text editors/IDEs have a good FTP plugin like Notepad++ does with NppFTP? Editor FTP integration is essential for my use-case, but I'd like to move off Windows as my daily driver OS if I can find an editor equivalent for Debian.
- goosedragons 4y agoEmacs with AngeFTP which is built in these days.
- sys42590 4y agoUnder Linux many desktop environment have support for FTP (via GVfs, KIO, etc.). A well integrated editor (which Kate might be) will usually support editing files on such folders. Alternatively, you can try curlftpfs, to access your FTP server like a local file system.
- ktpsns 4y agoI can confirm that Kate allows to edit files over FTP/SFTP/SMB and many more smoothly, which works over the KIO virtual file system. You can display the (remote) file tree on the side bar and files are uploaded at save (CTRL+S). When the upload takes longer, you even get a progress bar. It just feels very smooth.
- notRobot 4y agoThank you for your suggestions!
- haolez 4y agoPeople say that Notepad++ runs perfectly under Wine on Linux.
- notRobot 4y agoUnfortunately it's not quite perfect for me on Wine, I tried.
- suprjami 4y agoI'm impressed that KDE's standard text editor supports LSP. I wish it was on Flatpak so I could try it easily.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoat the website in the link there are instructions for building from sources
- Doxin 4y ago"easily"
- jjtheblunt 4y ago:)
- tsuujin 4y agoI remember finding Kate back in the day, when I was first learning to program and had previously done my Java coding in notepad. I recall having my mind blown because I had never seen syntax highlighting before and it was magical.
- noloblo 4y agois there a way to install it with home-brew on mac and no this doesn't work ? https://invent.kde.org/packaging/homebrew-kde/-/blob/master/Formula/kate.rb https://invent.kde.org/packaging/homebrew-kde/-/blob/master/...
- abc_lisper 4y agoIt’s a nice editor and old as hills
- Doxin 4y agoOh man, Kate advanced a lot since I last used it. Time to give it another go!