While scrolling through the Discover Software Center, I came across FeatherPad. This Qt text editor suppoorts tabs, line numbers, and a bunch of operations with the tabs including dragging a tab off the software and it then becomes it’s own standalone. The best thing is the speed with which it opens up. Simple and clean.
gary
Hi @zoner
Yeah FeatherPad is great for using as a simple text editor. I’ve been using that as my primary one for a long time (2 years maybe?). Then I can use Kate for more involved stuff when needed. There is also FeatherNotes which is a handy kind of…well, the name says it all really! 
Better than leafpad? 
It replaced leafpad on all my systems immediately I found it. Will even run OK as root - and I love that it has dark mode for editing (as well as maintaining syntax colouring). My go to scripter now…
as you see… 
I’m seeing a kind of Macish look to those windows?
Well - I certainly didn’t want a Windows look! I haven’t seen anything I like better, so I live with the ‘association’. At least it’s clear what they do…
featherpad & feathernote is programmed of guys of lxqt; pitty its not in the lxqt group 
already using a while as sddm-conf-editor from aur for sddm, but currently using ly so not needed
only i cant use plank, blaming i dont use x11, feathernote & featherpad is nice, in terminal fpad xxx.txt also works.
Initial release 2016; 4 years ago