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No big new features, only improvements and bug fixes. On the other hand KWrite got a major rework.

>As mentioned in my previous post KWrite now is just a slimmed down Kate. This means KWrite is just a 200 lines main.cpp file that uses the normal Kate code base and just shrinks it down to a non-plugin supporting slimmer variant via some internal options.

Supposedly they support "VI input mode", but anyone know how good it is? Are the menus generally controllable with keyboard input as well?

Usually, editors (like Visual Studio Code) have some basic vi emulation, but only supports the basic commands and also just for the main code window, so you still need to use the mouse for everything else.

The input mode is just for text editing (guess that is what you describe for VSC). For accessing the menus you use the common Alt+letter convention.

Kate was my favorite editor all the way back in 2011 or so when I ran a KDE Linux distro. Good to see it's still kicking.

Why is it named Kate?

K Advanced Text Editor.

Kate 22.08