From e31fee664e8b91c569f05e213fe6353d80633dff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Levi Neely Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 20:50:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(README): rewrite the intro to the honest motivation Replace 'for people who despise menus' with the real story: an attempt to turn Kate into a daily driver by pulling in ideas from the author's toolkit (acme, sam, plumber; Emacs M-x; a Sublime-style palette), rather than claiming Kate is already the author's editor. --- README.md | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 77ede33..0ed0308 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ # Deft -A suite of Kate plugins for people who despise menus. The aim is a text editor -that is driven by the mouse at the cursor and by plain-letter keyboard input — -never by hunting through nested menubars or memorizing complex chords. +Deft is my attempt to turn Kate into a daily driver I actually want to use. I +live in Plan 9's [acme](http://acme.cat-v.org/) most of the time, but I like a +lot of what Kate offers — and I don't like menu-driven workflows. So this is a +suite of Kate / KTextEditor plugins that pulls in ideas from the tools I reach +for — acme, sam, and the plumber from Plan 9; `M-x` from Emacs; a Sublime-style +fuzzy palette — and bends Kate toward them. + +The aim is a text editor driven by the mouse at the cursor and by plain-letter +keyboard input — never by hunting through nested menubars or memorizing complex +chords. ## Design constraints