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by urlwolf 2236 days ago
Typing latency as measured by typometer is quite high on kwin (no compositing). Both kate and Howl do much better. And pycharm. Great start, but it's not defeating vscode in the one aspect I care about: typing latency.

Kate is a surprisingly good/fast editor nowadays.
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jonahbenton 2236 days ago
Long time Kate user, though I dropped KDE years back in favor of Fedora XFCE. If one isn't in KDE world, Kate's paint latency when alt-tabbing back to a Kate window is incredibly, painfully slow.
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zem 2236 days ago
kate has always been a really good piece of software. I would have used it a lot back in the late 90s if it had only had good vim emulation, everything else was excellent.
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ilrwbwrkhv 2235 days ago
do you mean vs code has low latency?
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