As someone who switched from npp to Kate in the past year and change, I think npp is way better out of the box. Kate is like a multitool that you need to tweak a lot.

I actually just used it this weekend! On my airgapped Win XP machine. College vibes, very nostalgic.

The ability of Kate to pipe selected text through shell commands is very nice. Ctrl+\ or whatever it is.

I know that feeling. You'll never get it back because you grew up.

That feeling you have now is because that era reminds you of simpler times, less worries, less cluttered world. Embrace what you do now, it will be the same feeling in 15 years.

i knew i recognized the name somewhere earlier today when i learned about it, but i couldn't remember how until i saw this; i was forced to use it because of windows a while back.

i remember liking it too.

still waiting for steel

I don't understand the helix approach.

Let's build a new editor in rust (good), that is in the legacy of vim/nvim[/emacs] (good), that moves to resolve the backwards mechanics of the vim-syntax like meow (good) ... but let's build it all as built in features with no modularity ???

How can you build a new terminal editor like vim/nvim/emacs without realizing that the core strength is that the best features are delivered in plugins. Why would you try to write all of the functionality yourself? Why would you think that a small team can handle all of the work? How can you not realize that external contributors in vim/emacs are the source of the most interesting functionality?

I liked helix, almost as much as emacs w/ meow, but yiu xan't extend it, or write a plugin.