When comparing AkelPad vs Kate, the Slant community recommends Kate for most people. In the question“What are the best simple text editors for Windows?” Kate is ranked 8th while AkelPad is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Kate is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Update module
Embedded module to check for updates of main program and all plugins.
Pro Sorting text according to selected block
Select block of text and sort all text according to this block
Pro Configurable keyboard shortcuts
You can configure own shortcuts for many actions
Pro Highlight each occurrence of selected sequence
Simply select any sequence of characters (even part of word of single character) and you will see highlighted all occurrences of this sequence in a file.
Pro Configurable syntax highlighting
Syntax highlighting defined in separate files, ability to create or edit any syntax.
Pro Integrated terminal
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.
Pro Project mode
Kate allows you to make projects to simplify the organisation of your code. This brings in additional organization of an IDE without the overhead.
Pro Fast and minimaistic
Kate is pretty fast and lightweight. This helps it with it's start up speed.
Pro Syntax highlighting
Kate supports syntax highlighting for over 180 languages, from Assembler to Zsh.
Pro Edit over FTP, SSH, or other protocols
Kate uses KDE's input and output libraries to read and write files, allowing seamless integration with FTP, SMB, SFTP, and many other protocols.
Pro Thriving plugin ecosystem
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.
Pro By far one of the best and lightest text editors.
Notepads alternative (for the Windows users).
Pro Vi entry mode
Kate has a vi entry mode.
Cons
Con Windows only
It's not cross platform (but fully functional under Wine in Linux)
Con Hard to install on Windows or OS X
Kate can be a little hard to install and configure, especially for beginners.
On Linux or BSD, it can be easily installed from your distribution's repositories.