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Like Dolphin is even better than Explorer, Kate is even better than Notepad++!

That is a wild accusation. I need to install a nightly of Kate and give it another chance, if it's truly as good as you say. Np++ is starting to annoy me, with it's constant reopening of like 50 files every time it's started lol.

The fix is a checkbox away in the np++ settings dialog. That just goes to show that defaults are incredibly powerful.

That's not a fix if you still want to be notified when files change under you but without a modal that prevents you from doing anything else (including closing the file it's nagging you about). Kate (or any other application using Kate's editor component) does this much better by displaying a non-modal notification bar at the top of the editor similar to how browsers have implemented non-modal notifications.

You can disable that in the settings, it's under the "Backup" category.

N++ can tail and follow files and colour code the output. Smashing!

Kate recently opens a default start page which I now find annoying. Kate also opens all previously opened files by default.

All of these things are defaults that are easy to override but changing defaults can be annoying, especially when you have been used the previous defaults for more than a decade ...

Kwrite nowadays supports tabs. Try if it fits to your purpose now.

The last time I checked Kate could not do basic line operations like remove empty lines, duplicate line etc.

It does all of that now.

If you use Help > Find Action you can find stuff like that easier than hunting through the menus.

The actions for those are called "Remove Empty Lines" and "Remove Duplicate Lines"

Awesome thank you

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