!rant for programming i have idea, but i always dreamed of an editor with certain features. I even considered to program it on my own. But now i found out i was using it all way long: with the right plugins and a bunch of user scripts gedit is everything i ever needed!

writing a text editor is a nice side project tbh. I did make one with a colleague a while ago. I think we wrote it in C. For this task it probably doesnt really matter what language you use tho 😅

But then again, as you said, just modifying an existing editor is probably the way to go 👌

Kate is by far my most loved editor.

@Nanos why the fuck would anyone need a full fledged editor under android?

Some people really love self torture I guess.

@ostream vim is a crap bag.

@IntrusionCM to be fair, some phones give you a desktop like experience, when attached to a monitor, so i could potentially see a use case, if everything you have is a phone. Otherwise i agree 😅

@IntrusionCM i am completly in love with gedit right now and also it's what is by default in all of my machines. But out of curiosity - what does kate have what gedit doesn't?

@ostream kde isn't dead.

@horus gedit is fine I guess, I just was never on good terms with Gnome.
What I love most about KDE is KIOFS integration, especially Fish / SSH integration.

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/...

The rest are a lot of tiny features, like LSP support, color schemes, etc.

GEdit is probably fine, I dunno much about it.

Kate has just become my go-to editor cause it can handle pretty much everything, which I need for DevOps / administration a lot.

I wonder if a semantic editor would make coding on a touch screen at least bearable. Maybe with enough semantic data you can transform the task into a form that lends itself to touch control.

@Nanos vs code exists for Android but it's paid

@ostream i meant not for coding. I use idea for that.

@IntrusionCM Kate is my go-to when I am using KDE. Freaking amazing and I find no need for any other editor. I know I can use it under other D environments as well.

@ostream I use Kate when in KDE environments, and I don't know where you got that KDE is dead. It is one of two major desktop environments for Linux that constantly gets updates and has a massive user base.

@IntrusionCM my only reason for majority use of Gnome is for touch screen based computers. Other than that I prefer KDE. I know there are more DEs that are useful for computer with less resources, but I run good enough machines to use KDE, shit is awesome and beautiful

@AleCx04 KDE is one of the few desktop environments that doesn't dictate a workflow (like Gnome) or is sacrificing features for simplicity (like Gnome).

If you don't like a certain behaviour, there is almost guaranteed somewhere a configuration knob to change it to your likings. That's an approach I can live with... Not "remove configuration entirely, it could confuse users".

@IntrusionCM indeed it is, at least in the realm of "whilst still holding a mouse" I have always found it superior to gnome in that sense. I am not the biggest fan of gnome to be honest.

My personal favourite is Emacs. So easy to mould it the way you want, even if there isn’t a readily available package that adds those features :)

@ostream so we went from "no one uses it" to baseless "its bloatware" statements. Am I being played with in here or do you actually have a thought pattern that I might be able to discern here?

Real men use "h" to move backwards by default which is clearly beneficial and not just an artifact of the times before arrow keys were standard that wasn't updated because the community glorifies complexity