Kate

Kate

KDE
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About

Helix Editor is a powerful, modern text editor designed for developers seeking a fast, customizable, and efficient editing experience. Built with a focus on productivity, Helix uses a modal editing style inspired by Vim, which allows users to navigate, select, and manipulate text seamlessly through intuitive keyboard shortcuts. It offers a robust set of features including syntax highlighting, multi-caret editing, and support for languages like Rust, Python, and JavaScript. Helix also integrates with the Tree-sitter parsing library for precise syntax-aware editing, making it easier to work with complex code structures. With a minimal interface and a strong focus on performance, Helix Editor provides an ideal environment for programmers who prioritize speed and flexibility in their development workflow.

About

Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like. Kate supports highlighting for over 300 languages making it easier to read code in almost all programming languages. Kate also understands how brackets works and will help you navigate inside complex code blocks hierarchies. On-the-fly spellchecking is also included and will help you check your text before publishing. Work on multiple files at the same time with split views. Use the project sidebar to navigate your project directory structures and use Kate's smart tabs to quickly access your recently opened documents.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers

Audience

Content creators and programmers in search of a solution to view and edit all their text files

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Helix Editor is free and open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It's free and open-source, extremely fast start-up times, uses very little memory, and surprisingly customizable (I barely did any myself though; I wanted to keep it light). I find it useful for swiftly taking notes at a moment's notice, but I have also used it to quickly peek through config files, source code, or even certain text documents--they all just work. As a user who swaps between Windows and Linux, it being cross-platform is such a huge plus for me, and is the leading reason why I use it over Notepad++. As much as I like tinkering with software and hardware alike, I also don't want to find out that certain features I use regularly on one OS's notepad don't exist on other OS's notepads, even some third-party ones. It's just some peace of mind.

Cons

  • It lags for ~1 sec when it wraps text for the first time since the app was opened. Even after using this app for over a year, I still find the logo hard to identify as a text editor of any kind. I still have to tell people who borrow my laptop that my notepad app is this, even when it's pinned to the taskbar and start menu.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Helix Editor
helix-editor.com

Company Information

KDE
Founded: 1996
Germany
kate-editor.org

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

C
C#
C++
HTML
Racket
SQL
Ada
CSS
F#
Fortran
GraphQL
JSON
JavaScript
Julia
MATLAB
Nim
PHP
Qt
Ruby
XML

Integrations

C
C#
C++
HTML
Racket
SQL
Ada
CSS
F#
Fortran
GraphQL
JSON
JavaScript
Julia
MATLAB
Nim
PHP
Qt
Ruby
XML
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