what stand-alone python-aware open-source editors are around?

[Larz60+]

I use gnome and it, at least so far, appears to work fine.

[Skaperen]

Have you had a look at Sublime Text

I started using that a few weeks ago. It's not perfect, but it is worth a look.

not yet, but i will have a look tonight.

[Skaperen]

Kate is an excellent Python-aware open-source editor

I used Kate some years ago, but when I changed my Linux Distro, I could no longer use it :(

There's a 'Flatpak' install, but that's hopeless. I never got around to trying to build Kate from source (something that I've never done).

My Distro is now at EOL, so maybe I'll have a go at a build as I loved using Kate.

i just tried to install Kate from the Ubuntu repo. it added a ton of extra packages, over 100.

[Gribouillis]

i just tried to install Kate from the Ubuntu repo. it added a ton of extra packages, over 100.

That's probably because Kate belongs to the KDE ecosystem. However, it is only disk space. I think it's worth trading a little disk space versus being able to use this great editor.

[Skaperen]

i'll be using this under Ubuntu Linux, an LTS as much as 4 years behind (i skip every other release). i wonder how portable things are to run. of course, developed in Python should make that easier to do, although it happened to me with C. i released a program once intended for BSD or Linux. a friend tried it under NextOS and it "just worked" so he tried building it on Windows 3.1 and it "just worked". paying close attention to standards and things like that can have such as effect. and that's nearly trivial in Python.