J’ai comparé BBEdit et Kate, rapidement et à l’aune de mes usages/besoins :
https://www.patpro.net/blog/index.php/2026/04/05/3845-kate-lediteur-de-texte-foss/
Utilisateur de BBEdit depuis 1998, mon univers en matière d’édition de texte est très centré sur macOS. L’excellence de BBEdit, logiciel propriétaire n’existant que sur Mac, est aussi un des facteurs d’adhérence qui freine une possible migration de macOS vers une plateforme plus ouverte (comme FreeB
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And I discovered there are more people using #kate as their #programming editor!
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So, I made a Q&D benchmark of #BBEdit vs #Kate on macOS, opening and manipulating a huge text file : 915MB, +14M lines, some lines longer than 150K characters.
Kate opens the file faster, but everything else is slower. Kate also has a tunable limit of line length (default to 10K), documents with lines longer than that limit are opened read-only, unless you choose to override the limit when prompted to.
Also, above a given file size, Kate seems to disable some features, probably to preserve performance.
BBEdit has super great text manipulation features, designed with the user in mind (nice GUI to tune a line sorting operation, a complex line extraction, dupe removal, etc.).
Most of these features are non-existant in Kate. But one can achieve very similar results with the great «Filter Through Command…» menu. Just enter your usual grep/awk/tr/sed/sort/whatever command and get the result.
Hello Kate users! (as in Kate Text Editor)
Does one know if one can change the cursor shape and the cursor color?
I would like to replicate my Terminal.app cursor setting in Kate.
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