I really like Kate for Windows. I liked it when I was using linux, and I like it even more on windows now. I can safely say that it blows out of the water all general purpose editors I've seen on windows.

Unfortunatelly, I got an issue with one of the plugins in kate, the file system browser one. Whenever I point it to c:\ in windows 7, the cpu just goes up to 100%, memory starts to grow and at some point I get a Runtime error. You'd think by this point kate dies, but it keeps on going, using 100% cpu and making life miserable. As a matter of fact, you have to wait about 10 minutes before you can open the task manager and kill the beast. I think it's a textbook case of a busy loop triggered by something in the structure of my C:\ root drive.

Anybody out there have the same problem?

I'm using kate 3.4.0 on kde 4.4.0 on Windows 7