Kate vs Crimson Editor

Has a terminal that can sync to the location of your document, letting you compile or run your program quickly or run quick commands, all without leaving the editor.

Kate allows you to make projects to simplify the organisation of your code. This brings in additional organization of an IDE without the overhead.

Kate is pretty fast and lightweight. This helps it with it's start up speed.

Kate supports syntax highlighting for over 180 languages, from Assembler to Zsh.

Kate uses KDE's input and output libraries to read and write files, allowing seamless integration with FTP, SMB, SFTP, and many other protocols.

Lots of plugins allow Kate to expand or shrink based on your needs. It includes GDB integration, XML completion, and symbol viewing to speed up programming.

Notepads alternative (for the Windows users).

Kate has a vi entry mode.

It can create a project that will be stored in a prj file, which is a text file that can be edited and used across systems. The folder pane navigation is limited to each disk drive. The output pane can be used to capture compilers or other exe's output, and also shows search output while searching in multiple files. You can just click on any line and it then opens the corresponding file in a new tab and shows you the needed line.

Can open with all last worked documents - remembers all file positions.

Find and replace (multifile) allowed with support for regular expressions also.

Repetitive lines or words can be recorded as a macro, kept and recalled when needed, since it is permanently stored (up to 11 macros).

Return to last edit option is very good during coding, where we can lose track of where we were.

The column mode editing trick, which we could do in MS Office (with ALT + mouse key), is also available.

Supports any number of tabs