Kate
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 30, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I like Kate, but it has way too many option I will never use”
“Kate (my main programming editor, coupled with clangd for C/C++ programming)”
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“stumbled on KDE/kate. It's been a perfect substitute.”
“I use many of their apps too, such as Kate.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
2 moved from Visual Studio Code to Kate
1 moved from Sublime Text to KateZim Wiki1 comment mention both
1 moved from Zim Wiki to KateVim2 comments mention both
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Fine, I'll build my own text editor 2 mentions
- Bun 1.4 1 mention
- Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management 1 mention
- KDE at 30 1 mention
- Zed is 1.0 1 mention
- GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing 1 mention
Data: kate.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“I like Kate, but it has way too many option I will never use”
“even Kate, which was great, had too much going on”
“they have switched to Kate or Vim”
“Kate text editor on laptop”
“Kate (my main programming editor, coupled with clangd for C/C++ programming)”
“stumbled on KDE/kate. It's been a perfect substitute.”
“I use a simple editor (KDE's Kate)”
“I use many of their apps too, such as Kate.”