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Kate was, beside Dolphin one of my earliest and most positively surprising discoveries on KDE. Kate fulfills for me the role that Np++ had back in the windows
by riidom 2y ago
Kate was, beside Dolphin one of my earliest and most positively surprising discoveries on KDE.
Kate fulfills for me the role that Np++ had back in the windows days. I use it when I want to work file based and not project- or directory based.
- nazgulsenpai 2y agoI found notepadqq to be a near drop-in replacement for my use of Notepad++ (mostly the visible line endings, find/replace extended characters like \n & \t). The interface is near-identical. It hasn't been updated in a couple years but haven't run into any bugs in a year+ use.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoLike Dolphin is even better than Explorer, Kate is even better than Notepad++!
- topato 2y agoThat is a wild accusation. I need to install a nightly of Kate and give it another chance, if it's truly as good as you say. Np++ is starting to annoy me, with it's constant reopening of like 50 files every time it's started lol.
- copperx 2y agoThe fix is a checkbox away in the np++ settings dialog. That just goes to show that defaults are incredibly powerful.
- account42 2y agoThat's not a fix if you still want to be notified when files change under you but without a modal that prevents you from doing anything else (including closing the file it's nagging you about). Kate (or any other application using Kate's editor component) does this much better by displaying a non-modal notification bar at the top of the editor similar to how browsers have implemented non-modal notifications.
- tredre3 2y agoYou can disable that in the settings, it's under the "Backup" category.
- gerdesj 2y agoN++ can tail and follow files and colour code the output. Smashing! Kate recently opens a default start page which I now find annoying. Kate also opens all previously opened files by default. All of these things are defaults that are easy to override but changing defaults can be annoying, especially when you have been used the previous defaults for more than a decade ...
- Smar 2y agoKwrite nowadays supports tabs. Try if it fits to your purpose now.
- g8oz 2y agoThe last time I checked Kate could not do basic line operations like remove empty lines, duplicate line etc.
- sigzero 2y agoIt does all of that now.
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoIf you use Help > Find Action you can find stuff like that easier than hunting through the menus. The actions for those are called "Remove Empty Lines" and "Remove Duplicate Lines"
- g8oz 2y agoAwesome thank you
- p4bl0 2y agoIf you need to work file based and not project or directory based then you should probably be using Kwrite, which literary is a stripped down version of Kate specifically for this purpose.
- binkHN 2y agoI absolutely love KWrite to do something in a pinch!
- calvinmorrison 2y agoWhich shows how far ahead KDE was even in 3.5 times with reusable embeddable components that were highly engineered. For example Konqueror has a long list of plugins including calling kwrite to render inside of it. The early kio tooling that predates fuse in having universal access through a single file viewer.
- doubled112 2y agoWas that what they called KParts? Terminal, file browser, text editor, more, all easy to embed and build an application around?
- jraph 2y agoYep. Still current I think.
- calvinmorrison 2y agoYes exactly! I forgot to mention dcop a message passing forerunner to dbus as well as arts the forerunner to pulsaudioe
- ecef9-8c0f-4374 2y agodcop was better. easy to use and accessible for non developer. I scripted so many dcop bash scripts. I never connected with dbus.
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- kzrdude 2y agoGedit with lots of plugins did the same for me in the early gnome 2 days.
- qiqitori 2y agoToo bad that gedit is utter garbage now. Lol Gnome. My pet rabbit gets confused when there are too many features so let's remove them all.
- SuaveSteve 2y agoNo. No. No. You have it wrong, my friend. The entire thing, like systemd and wayland, is a glorified excuse to reinvent the wheel so that a fresh batch of wizards can continue the cycle.
- The_Colonel 2y agoAh, this thought stopping argument again. X11 is garbage which nobody wants to maintain, let alone develop. It's a very archaic design which is patched via extensions to sorta support some modern concepts which negate the network transparency anyway. Both Wayland and systemd have a very wide developer consensus, because they finally provide a maintainable solution to their respective problems. The drama is constructed by a small minority of contrarians.
- account42 2y agoWayland might have some developer consensus for the base protocol. Not so much for extensions to make it actually usable on a desktop. By the time it does it will be a patchwork as complex as X11 - it's already getting there with things like requiring PipeWire for simple things like capturing the screen.
- andreyv 2y agoOld does not mean bad. Even a decade later Wayland struggles to provide basic features that were built in the X protocol.