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Kakoune vs Kate

A side-by-side look at Kakoune and Kate. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Kakoune

Kakoune

Development

Kakoune is a modal text editor focused on interactivity and efficiency. It provides vi/vim inspired key bindings and modes along with multiple selections and other innovative text editing features. Kakoune is lightweight, customizable, and aims to provide a productive and enjoyable editing experience.

modalvimkeyboard-shortcutsmultiple-selectionslightweightcustomizableefficient
Kate

Kate

Development

Kate is a free and open-source advanced text editor for Linux, UNIX, Windows and macOS. It provides syntax highlighting, project management, plugins and other features for programmers and developers.

opensourcetext-editorprogrammingdevelopers

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