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Kate is the feature-packed text editor from KDE.

See the web page "Building Kate from Sources on Linux" https://kate-editor.org/build-it/ 

The web page talks about how to build kate using kdesrc-build and how to configure kate.

Configure the kate text editor in order to program/develop C++ source code projects:
* Configure kdesrc-build to generate .kateproject project files.
* Configure kdesrc-build to generate the file compile_commands.json used by the clangd C++ LSP server.
* Enable the kate plugins: Project Plugin, LSP Client, Build Plugin, GDB.

Some of the features available in kate:
* Debugger. Using the "GDB" plugin.
* LSP Client Symbol Outline
* Right click in text editor on a C++ identifier > LSP Client > Go to Declaration/Find References/ Switch Source Header F12/ Symbol Info/ Search and Go to Symbol Ctrl+Alt+P/ Format/ Rename/ Switch to diagnostics tab/ Quickfix This menu is also available from kate main menu > LSP Client.
* kate main menu > Tools > External Tools > Git > git blame/ gitk
* kate main menu > Tools > External Tools > Tools > Clang Format Full File/ Search KDE/Qt API/ JSON/XML Format Full File.