I'm sorry my comment is not deep enough to be his irrelevant to the topic but I gotta ask: Do you know a text editor which is just notepad but remembers the last session when you close it? I just need a scratchpad, even notepad++ is too fancy for my needs but that's what I was using on windows. Now I use kate but it feels like I'm killing a mosquito with a rocket launcher when a book cover would do.

[–] hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Unless you want to get fancy for the sake of not being fancy, you will likely be best just sticking with Kate.

Basic editing can be done in vi or nano or even piped to a file via she'll. I don't think any of those are necessarily better or worse than using Kate. Vi and nano would probably be faster but you would need to be in a terminal already.

That said, I am curious as well if anyone has a better answer.

[–] who@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

On KDE Plasma, I would stick with Kate and hide/disable some the fancier interface features. It might seem like overkill, but since it's built from common components that other KDE apps use anyway, the effective resource consumption will probably be light. And Kate is quick.

On a Gtk desktop, you might try Mousepad. This is what I used before moving away from Xfce.