Kate text editor cannot handle lines longer than 1024?

Question

This is a very annoying limitation for editing some config files, such as mozilla prefs.js. It usually contains lines longer than that.

Answer 1

This is a well know "security option", it is configurable:

Go to:

Settings / configure editor / open and save
set line length limit [ 1024 ]

and change 1024

Answer 2

If you are against VIM and EMACS (give them a try), there's gnome's alternative Gedit, then theres also the lightweight IDE Geany, and Mousepad, and there are the full fledged IDEs like Ajunta, NetBeans, QTCreator, etc.