Mastodawn

In my search for a non-big Tech alternative to #VSCode/#VSCodium, I've been giving the #Kate text/code editor a try over the last week (which oddly I had never heard of before, even though it's been around for over 25 years!):

https://kate-editor.org/

There are a couple of things I haven't yet figured out (like how to get Markdown previews working), but overall I quite like it so far!

Kate - Get an Edge in Editing

Kate is a modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.

Kate

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#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈1d ago

@bitsgalore do you know if it supports something like Editor Config? https://editorconfig.org/ -- I try to check in this file and vscode settings.json so there is less disparity between editors when multiple people are working on a code-base. It tends to make review a little bit easier as some folk won't have things like trimlines and add newline enabled.

EditorConfig

EditorConfig is a file format and collection of text editor plugins for maintaining consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.

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Johan van der Knijff 1d ago

@beet_keeper No idea, I don't see Kate listed on that page, so probably not!

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#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈1d ago

@bitsgalore it's own equivalent would be fine too -- I don't think vscode supports editorconfig but you can distribute the settings.json file to the same effect. It just gets messier the more config files there are.

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dgelessus 1d ago

@beet_keeper @bitsgalore Kate supports EditorConfig - it's just not listed on the EditorConfig website. (It does list "KTextEditor", which I think is the editor component used by Kate/KWrite and other KDE applications.)

EditorConfig is the de facto standard these days - you won't find many editors that *don't* support EditorConfig in some way.