Curiously, the cream of the crop in terms of security-focused Linux (i.e. Kicksecure and secureblue) leverage systemd to their benefit.

UPDATE: For posterity’s sake, I’d like to reflect on the last couple of days.

First of all, I’d like to thank everyone that has contributed to the discussion! Were it not for your recommendations/suggestions/endorsements, then I might not have found a valid alternative.

Secondly, I’ve taken every single recommendation pretty seriously. As such, I’ve either installed them to see for myself if I was able to reproduce the functionality found in the gif found above. Or, didn’t install them to begin with due to the suggested installation methods not passing through my (rather) strict policy on software. Regardless, in the end, I’ve only found two pieces of software that satisfied the bill: Kate and KDevelop.

KDevelop is pretty cool, but is more of an IDE rather than a text editor. As such, I’ve landed on Kate.

But, perhaps more than anything, I’ve come to really appreciate Emacs (and Neovim). And, perhaps more than ever, I feel ready to take them on 💪. Wish me luck 😊.

You can pretty easily export Org mode files to markdown (and LaTeX)!

Oh wow, thank you for offering me this learning experience!

There may be a setting you need to turn on (I forget and I’m not at my PC), but it works well and is very easy to use.

I’m on Doom Emacs, so perhaps this is enabled by default. But, at least for me, it was as easy as pressing SPC m e. This opens up the export menu. From there; one may select LaTeX, Markdown or any of the many other options to export to. The fuzzy search from M-x also allowed me to find it by typing out the functionality I was seeking.

Granted, I am not entirely content on how Emacs handled the export to Markdown. But I wouldn’t bat an eye if Emacs enables me to configure it exactly as I’d want to.

Also, I haven’t really done it, but from what I understand you can also setup emacs to be a really good LaTeX editor.

Again, I wouldn’t be surprised. It seems Emacs lends itself extremely well to whatever you throw at it 😂. No doubt; this is dndgame-material for sure*.

Well, bundling a full browser and using a mature and popular runtime are very different things in my book.

Thank you for clarifying that distinction for me!

But yeah, if you want an open source tool, JetBrains is not the tool to use.

Thank you for confirming it for me! Regardless, your recommendation has been much appreciated!

Thank you for mentioning Sublime Text! It seems to be a very competent text editor. However, unfortunately, I don’t like how it is not open source.

I think my needs for a text editor for making notes and/or writing texts are mostly fulfilled between Emacs and Kate. At least…, for my untrained eyes. Do you think Sublime Text offers merit beyond (either of) these to be considered instead?

Sorry for the late response.

I’ve tested most of what has been suggested and I can attest that Kate is indeed very good. Thanks for mentioning your endorsement as well!

However, while I really like Geany aesthetically, I wasn’t able to fold Markdown headings with it. Uhmm…, would you happen to know if this is actually featured?

Thank you so much! The instructions will be very helpful whenever I test out Zed later today or early tomorrow.

Yeah it seems folding with markdown isn’t as ubiquitous as I’d like. I’ve tested a couple text editors since yesterday and only Kate (and (by extension) KDevelop) did a decent job at supporting folding with markdown.

Thank you for mentioning this! Do you happen to know what distinguishes this from Notepad Next?

Scite can do it.

Noted. Thank you!

Notepad++ probably too but I don’t know if it’s available on Linux.

FWIW, someone else pointed out the existence of Notepad Next. Which IIUC is pretty much an open-source and cross-platform reimplementation.

I just remember it being the text editor to use on Windows.

Frankly, I never used it when I was using Windows 😅. I suppose I was (somehow) conditioned at the time to use whatever M$ Office offered instead 😜.

JetBrains IDEs

I have used them in the past. They’re definitely pretty cool and do their job well. Unfortunately, unless I’m wrong, most of their offerings^[1] are not open source. I believe this also applies to Fleet.

My apologies for not making it clear in the post, but I do prefer open source whenever I can afford it.

Finally, there’s a lot not to like about electron, but I feel like JetBrains’ use of JVMs isn’t a lot better.

Regardless, I will note it down as I intend to test them all out anyways :P .

Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong in any of the above. Thank you!

Interesting. I will look into this. Thank you!

The folding in Kate isn’t bound to a keyboard shortcut by default, but you can bind the katepart > Toggle current node in settings > configure keyboard shortcuts. It’s also available via mouse on the left side.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ah okay, my apologies for not being clear enough!

While emacs and (neo)vim definitely fit the bill of CLI/TUI editors, I am open to GUI editors.

Thank you for allowing me to clarify myself!

Thank you for mentioning Kate! The GNOME-fanboy inside of me would probs like to resist it, but sometimes KDE’s offering is strictly better^[1] at least IMO*. I’ll look into it and see if it satisfies my needs.

It’s a GUI and not a TUI though. Not sure if that was a requirement as well

That wasn’t a requirement. Regardless, thank you for the heads up!

Apologies for not being clear, and thank you for probing me to answer the right questions:

• I’m not married to Markdown or any other markup language, but it is true that Markdown makes up my primary use case.
• Though, with emacs installed, I’ve also dabbled into org-mode. And while I’ve been liking it so far, I understand that it’s mostly an emacs thing.
• I suppose my current needs would mostly be fulfilled with Markdown + LaTeX.

Here’s Eclipse, for example.

Thank you for mentioning Eclipse! Will look into it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

This has a “text folding” and “code folding” column.

Wow, that’s pretty neat! Very much appreciated!

Sorry, I don’t understand. It seems others have already recommended text editors that probably fit the bill.

Perhaps my post was unclear or causing confusion? If so, please allow me to correct myself.

Hopefully it will receive it soon*; my Helix-installation has been collecting dust ever since the folding-workflow has been growing on me.

Mind elaborating?

And if GNOME is considered “not very customisable” in the linux world, KDE, Cinnamon, etc. must be even more customisable

It’s more like GNOME doesn’t come with a lot of customization options OOTB. You need extra tools -be it Tweaks, Extension Manager or the somewhat archaic Dconf Editor- to unleash the plethora of customization options in a palpable manner.

On the upside, GNOME’s extensions do allow for extensive customization with ‘ease’. Heck, this often goes beyond what other DEs are capable of (see e.g. PaperWM^[1] or Material Shell^[2]).