Recently I've been trying to move more of my text editing to non-proprietary editors.
I have used and paid for UltraEdit for decades, and it's great, but their Linux version (UEX) has been neglected for years. However, I'm very familiar with its features and how it behaves.
The closest OSS alternative is Kate, and I've been trying to reproduce and re-implement a lot of what it does in Kate using scripting, options, plugins, and so on.
Lunar Transportation System mission profile diagram from Lunatics Project.
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Hang around Linux and FOSS circles long enough, and you will encounter the Editor Wars, in which the battle of the ancient superpowers of Vi versus Emacs continues to burn in the dulled flames of their Cold War.
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My favorite text editor is (horrors) a GUI application: Kate. :smug_dance:
The "KDE Advanced Text Editor".
It's an excellent general purpose tool, whether you want to write in plain text, Markdown, HTML, CSS, or code for any of several dozen programming languages.
It lacks IDE-like features, such as test-runners or compilers, although you can add scripts to trigger from the "Tools" menu, so it could be used as an IDE with a little tinkering.
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Aaaaaaa, Kate is so awesome. It's super fast, it has cool plugins/integrations (Git/SQL/Color Picker are just a few I use), plenty of customization options and it's so simple to use. Been using it ever since I started using Linux daily for years since it came with KDE and it's my daily driver for writing a mod for Godot game for the past 3 months.
LSP server integration works very well, I started using macros for some boring templates, I discovered I can use mouse side buttons to go to previous location instead of switching tabs just today, tabs are just fine and I feel that there is still plenty of juice I could get out of Kate if I spent the time to learn how to wield it to be even more efficient.
Granted, there are some issues like straight up dying/becoming unresponsive when dealing with very large files or unformatted JSON files, but I can understand those shortcomings.
Kudos to the contributors, it's a fine piece of software that serves those using it. :blobfoxheart:
#KEcoLab is a KDE tool for measuring software's #energy consumption, but it needs robust testing to ensure stable functionality after code changes. Sarthak presents his work in Season of #KDE 2024 implementing dedicated test builds with #Kate test scripts.
Screenshot from the Gitlab pipeline testing the stability of KEcoLab output using Kate usage scenario scripts. The screenshot shows that the test build and energy measurement test passed.
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Over 20 years of bug squashing for Kate & KDE ( cullmann.io )