I love Kate, and I think it's nuts to have an app like that as the "default" text editor on #KDE when you compare to what you get on other OSes like Notepad on #Windows and #TextEdit on #macOS :blobfoxboop_w_:
I think the only 2 things that subtly spoils my experience using Kate if you're familiar with other options the likes of #VSCode, #Sublime, etc. is 1) you cannot open links found in your text through a (combination) click, something you could do in a lot of other text editors, even the terminal, and 2) just little things like the fact that it's unnecessarily awkward to go the next/previous (text) match when trying to find a particular word in your file - this is so jarring bcos this basic thing should be easy but on Kate, it's... awkward due to the out of place and dynamic positioning of the buttons.
But all in all though, besides the two points, it's an insanely solid option - I love the design, its plugin system (tho I avoid using it since it's for me more so a Notepad/#NotepadPlusPlus replacement (i.e. default text editor) rather than a VS Code replacement), and just ease of use. I could totally see myself using it as my primary code editor if I wasn't just so used to VS Code already.
RE: https://woof.tech/users/Frisk/statuses/113789946910437233