I’m not an IT professional or even expert. I’ve been using Geany for a decade, but recently I switched from a frugal setup to KDE Plasma, and decided that I want to use everything KDE has to offer as far as possible.
I’ve been using Kate for almost 3 months now, mostly for web development (Jinja), shell scripting and Markdown writing. It’s been a good experience overall, but it seems to have one or two shortcomings compared to Geany, which makes me wonder how Kate fares in the landscape of Linux code editors/IDEs.
To give a concrete example, Geany has this great feature for HTML that automatically creates a closing tag once I finish the opening one. E.g. I type <div>, and as soon as I type the , a closing </div> appears. Neat. That’s more than just automatically closing brackets. I see no Kate plugin that would do that.
There’ve been a few more niggles, I’ll edit the post - which I hope makes sense as a general question - when I remember them.
TIA
Wait, sure does? And i’m on XFCE (Gtk) here, not full integrarion and stuff. But it has no IDE features or plugins, which Kate has. And “light”, it’s more of a Notepad++ than a Metapad/Mousepad.
Oh…you are right, I had no clue when that was added. Sorry, I really had no clue that kwrite can do that by now…I am sure it couldn’t do it in the past (But I doubt I really tired it in the last ten years after seeing that it initially didn’'t support it…so it could have been possible for some time already and I wouldn’t have noticed)
It’s a few years now, at least since i started using it.
Yep, I edited and added the commit that first tried adding it. It’s been four years at least…so much about me noticing changes in programs I use ;)