Compared to All That's Out There, is KDE's Kate a Good Code Editor?
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Compared to All That's Out There, is KDE's Kate a Good Code Editor?
I’m not an IT professional or even expert. I’ve been using [Geany][g] 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 [g]: https://geany.org/ [https://geany.org/]
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