Just a comment gentlemen: Browser Wars. Grow Up! 
About 5 seconds of searching online gives you this:
The key you’re looking for is “Home”.
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And KP_Home from your link
Bookmarked 
Kate is looking good. Yet another good reason to move to KDE.
Can you recommend any good beginner tutorials on Kate?
Michael
You don’t need a tutorial for Kate, you already know how to use it, except the more advanced features, which you’ll discover along the way. If you’re going to use Kate for programming, make sure to install the appropriate LSP, to have the nice IDE features in Kate.
There is a slightly outdated Kate Handbook, you may want to skim through it a bit, just to see what’s there, but you don’t really need it.
@HMS_Endeavour
Here is some kate stuff…
I use Kate BTW! 
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I am pretty sure Kate cannot do what I want. But still, the editor with the EndeavourOS base I couldn’t find a basic text editor in a clean install. The system should have had one text editor. Even vim wasn’t found!
I want an editor that can do column editing. I didn’t have wifi running yet because my wifi dongle RTL8812CUS wasn’t recognized and I could not find a network app in settings to set up anyway.
Welcome aboard @montyw47
Being a minimal install, I think they leave text editor choice to you.
Michael
we have nano installed and shipped with a neat setup for using highlighting for a lot of langs.
Where nano is the default editor we ship Desktops come with their own ones, and the setup for XFCE4 and i3 we give using xed (editor)
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I’m not sure it took me that long to find that particular entry - but they don’t seem to work either. Oh well - no quick fixes I guess!
Xed is actually pretty nice, I really like the code highlighting. Don’t know if it has any of the advanced text editor features you are looking for.
Welcome! 
There are thousands of text editors.
Here are some sources of information:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#Text_editors
The latter includes information about other application types as well.
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How do you think I made this?
Better text editor? - #15 by Kresimir
Kate does column editing, of course.
Just an update on the original problem that led to this thread - I got it (mostly) working, despite the inconsistency of the ‘codes’ for keys. Some of them are initial cap’d, some not… There should be a correct list somewhere - but I can’t seem to find it! Anyway - the files are processed to a reasonable degree - mostly search/replace ops now. I still miss having all that (and embedded special chars in search/replace too) built-in to my editor - but I still don’t have the time left to learn it in vim!
Thanks to all who helped solve the problem - though it’s hard to figure which to mark as the ‘solution’ as the original question still isn’t really answered!
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Could you please specify what you mean by this? I’m sure we can solve this “problem”, as well.
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I wouldn’t call it something that rises to the level of problem - it is just sometimes handy to specify things like tabs and linebreaks etc embedded in a search string, as well as the replace string. Some simple editors used to do this (enter hex code in string perhaps), and it can be a great way to reformat a mass (mess) of text if you can think OOTB 
Not needed ATM, just would be nice to still have (while I wax nostalgic for my ‘best ever’ editor that coded in so many languages so well (Modula-2, C, Pascal, True Basic, 680x0 assembly, etc) while acting as an IDE for all of them, including calling debuggers as needed. We would be so much better off if the Amiga hadn’t been killed off (by a combination of MS and stupidity - could easily have blown Apple away)…
Enough OT for now!
Kate has that. It has three modes for searching and replacing text: plain text, escape sequences, regular expressions.
Too bad it has so much bloat to go with it !
I still might try it out somewhere when I have ‘time’ - but the rest of KDE has been a dealbreaker for me since I first ran into its Windows like appearance and weird app names… was that 2006? Although I am aware that it has improved some since…
The more I see and hear about Kate, the more I like her.
Michael