Another small oddity I notice playing with #LinuxMint 22.3 on its fresh M.2 SSD is the no-break space. I used to have that configured in Keyboard to be "Non-breaking space at the 3rd level," which for me meant hitting CapsLock+Space produced a hard space. That doesn't work now. Nor does trying other possibilities like 2nd level (Shift+Space).

However, since I use Espanso (a text expander), I can fix that indirectly by defining a third-level key in the Typo file to produce a unique character (I let Caps+a be ␠) and having ever-watchful Espanso quickly turn that into a real hard space.

(Note that defining the #NoBreakSpace directly in the Typo file by UTF-16 Encoding has never worked, though it does for other characters. Systems are weird, and one must work around them.)

Delete trailing spaces on saving a file? Fine, #KDEKate. But don't delete trailing spaces when I use a #NoBreakSpace.

I write text in the editor and then paste it in sites, and two of the sites I do that on have been updated to delete blank lines. The only way to preserve them is to put a #HardSpace on the line that's supposed to be blank.

If I unthinkingly hit Ctrl+S to save the file after I've methodically inserted a bunch of non-breaking spaces, they vanish. That's annoying.

I really wish you were better, #Kate. Please give me the abilities I had in The Semware Editor on Windows. Abilities you lack, least annoying of the Linux text editors I've tried.