Kate

Kate is an excellent open-source code-editor which I have used as my primary development platform (mainly for PHP) for at least the past decade. It does, however, have some annoying issues which suggest deeper design flaws.

Issues

(a list in progress)

• When searching "all files in project", it will often return results from files which have been deleted or renamed, and are no longer open under the name that it finds. Clicking on the search-result brings up either a blank page or a page with a warning that the file has been changed on disk.
• You cannot close a file from the "Projects" view; you have to switch to "Documents", close it there, switch back to "Projects", remember not to have the closed file selected, and then refresh the tree. Sometimes the file reappears later anyway (saving the session seems to help, but not always).
• If you save a session and then exit Kate too quickly, the session is empty when you reload Kate.
  • This does seem to be a problem only for larger sessions (100+ files); even so, if Kate is still saving a session when you close it, it should either warn you that it's not done or else finish saving before exiting -- preferably with a status message so you know why it's not closing immediately.