I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you're right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.

[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kwrite doesnt really exist on its own anymore. Its a slimmed down gui for kate now.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow you're right, it's basically just kate without some of the toolbars now. Hadn't used plain kwrite in a while.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

It also doesn't have Sessions.
Making it a better choice when you want to quickly open/create a file (the Session selection menu requires a lot of tabbing or using the mouse)

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

We're almost like coding siblings lol

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Yep, I came here to say that Kate is really nice. Even though I'm an emacs user and won't use it.

Nano, on the other hand, can't do almost anything, so I can't recommend that people make heavy use of it. It's ok for random small edits, but that's it. (By the way, YSK that you can set your terminal to use Kate as the default editor by setting the $EDITOR variable.)

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 9 points 4 months ago

KWrite is the standard text editor. Kate is the advanced one. The name actually literally stands for "KDE Advanced Text Editor"

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

Geany is a nice GUI option. It's a bit more capable but still lean.

It's probably time for me to re-evaluate the host of coding editors out there. For the most part I just use good text editors. Though I do love Spyder, I only use it for a certain subset of tasks.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Me too. I'm still not sure what the problem is and I'm kind of afraid to ask.

I do have the plugin for multi-line editing set up, I guess.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

All the cool kids use vim, so using nano makes you uncool, I guess. But I use Mint, so I'm uncool anyway.