HayadSont @ HayadSont @discuss.online

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Thank you for confirming my suspicions. I took it for a test run and wasn't able to replicate the above functionality either. Hopefully it's an error on my side, but it's very possible that I will not stick to Geany.

Thank you for mentioning Lapce!

I have been interested in Lapce for a long time. Unfortunately, IIUC, it doesn't support folding Markdown headings as shown in the gif. At least, I wasn't able to get it to work. Can you attest to this? Or am I doing something wrong? Your aid would be much appreciated!

By admission of my fellow Lemmy-users, I've gone and tried out many text editors over the course of the past few days. Unfortunately, I didn't like the installation options for Zed in my current distro of choice (i.e. Fedora):

• its flatpak is unverified
• not found in Fedora's own repos

It is found within Terra's repos. However, users report that -at least for Zed- some of the installed packages from Fedora's own repo are replaced by Terra's. This interaction can be prevented by giving preference for Fedora's own packages, but it seems like a can of worms I'm not very interested to engage with at the moment. Hopefully this situation will be resolved rather sooner than later.

Anyhow, have you got the chance to work with Emacs and/or Kate over the years? If so, could you chime in and give your thoughts on how Zed fares in comparison? Please note that I'm (mostly) asking within the confines of a relatively simple text editor used to take notes with.

Thank you for mentioning Sublime Text! It seems to be a very competent text editor. However, unfortunately, I don't like how it is not open source.

I think my needs for a text editor for making notes and/or writing texts are mostly fulfilled between Emacs and Kate. At least..., for my untrained eyes. Do you think Sublime Text offers merit beyond (either of) these to be considered instead?

Sorry for the late response.

I've tested most of what has been suggested and I can attest that Kate is indeed very good. Thanks for mentioning your endorsement as well!

However, while I really like Geany aesthetically, I wasn't able to fold Markdown headings with it. Uhmm..., would you happen to know if this is actually featured?

Thank you so much! The instructions will be very helpful whenever I test out Zed later today or early tomorrow.

I have to agree with the positivism surrounding Kate. It has been the only one (together with KDevelop) out of the 5 text editors I've installed and tested since yesterday that actually did what I desired from it. Props to the devs! Let's see if it can dethrone Emacs 😜.

Thank you!

I tested Notepad Next, which seems to be Notepad++' cross-platform alternative. However, I wasn't able to get the folding functionality on a Markdown file. Am I doing something wrong?

I've tried Kate since yesterday, it has been one of the better ones for now.

JetBrains Fleet seems like a cool project. But I'll probably wait until it's open sourced. Thanks anyways!

Yeah it seems folding with markdown isn't as ubiquitous as I'd like. I've tested a couple text editors since yesterday and only Kate (and (by extension) KDevelop) did a decent job at supporting folding with markdown.

Thank you for mentioning this! Do you happen to know what distinguishes this from Notepad Next?

Scite can do it.

Noted. Thank you!

Notepad++ probably too but I don’t know if it’s available on Linux.

FWIW, someone else pointed out the existence of Notepad Next. Which IIUC is pretty much an open-source and cross-platform reimplementation.

I just remember it being the text editor to use on Windows.

Frankly, I never used it when I was using Windows 😅. I suppose I was (somehow) conditioned at the time to use whatever M$ Office offered instead 😜.

JetBrains IDEs

I have used them in the past. They're definitely pretty cool and do their job well. Unfortunately, unless I'm wrong, most of their offerings^[Don't quote me on this, but I believe their open source options are limited to the community editions of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm. Which isn't too bad as both of them should support a plethora of languages (including Markdown).] are not open source. I believe this also applies to Fleet.

My apologies for not making it clear in the post, but I do prefer open source whenever I can afford it.

Finally, there's a lot not to like about electron, but I feel like JetBrains' use of JVMs isn't a lot better.

Regardless, I will note it down as I intend to test them all out anyways :P .

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in any of the above. Thank you!

Interesting. I will look into this. Thank you!

The folding in Kate isn't bound to a keyboard shortcut by default, but you can bind the katepart > Toggle current node in settings > configure keyboard shortcuts. It's also available via mouse on the left side.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I use it because it feels a lot snappier than other editors/IDEs I’ve tried when browsing large files.

Snappiness is definitely something I appreciate. So, if it blows everything else out of the water in this respect, that I might have to concede. Thank you for mentioning this particular aspect of it!

On the one hand, it’s a shame that it’s not open-source, but on the other hand, developers have to make a living from something.

I wholeheartedly agree. But, I prefer the capability to donate to the open-source software developers that I love to support.

Thank you! Unfortunately, I've come to the understanding it's not open source. So it's unlikely I'll go for it.

Yet another one I've never heard of before. Thank you so much for mentioning it!

Thank you!

Question: According to this table, Geany's capabilities might leave some to desire when it comes to code/text folding. Is this correct? Or is the table simply outdated?

There’s also Zed.

Noted. Thank you!

And helix.

I believe this doesn't have folding (yet). Unfortunately.

Also neovim is really dope! Just have to throw that there

xD , Neovim is definitely pretty cool.

Ah okay, my apologies for not being clear enough!

While emacs and (neo)vim definitely fit the bill of CLI/TUI editors, I am open to GUI editors.

Thank you for allowing me to clarify myself!