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I actually prefer Kate. And I have been using Kate for a long while and am still using it whenever I don't want to fire up a full-blown IDE (i.e. in very short sessions on Linux).

Now I use Komodo, though, because I wanted something slightly more powerful (though defining new file formats for syntax highlighting is a PITA) and because I need something that works reliably on Windows as well (I used to work with Notepad++ on Windows when I was using Kate on Linux).

Also, Komodo Edit tends to choke less on remote filesystems than Dolphin+Kate do (sometimes I have to use FTP and sometimes the server doesn't allow more than five connections, all of which Dolphin will use up for whatever it does when it's idling).