I’m looking for a text editor with explicit Wayland support, software created only for X11 can at least at the time suffer from various compatibility issues (crashes, window-related problems) based on my experience.
I mainly use a text editor for creating notes in markdown — syntax-highlighting is essential and default save path (e.g. ~/Documents/syncthing) is quite vital for my personal workflow. In practice a Linux program similar to the Markor on Android, preferably available on the Fedora’s software repo.
I’d prefer not to use any dedicated “markdown editors” at the time (they may not have a comprehensive or any support for other file types, I don’t think I need a dual-panel view) — rather one program for all text files and editing.
I’m pretty happy with marker a markdown-specific editor — it’s GTK 3 and runs as a native Wayland app. I actually use it for a very specific thing: I made a “linja-pona” theme for writing in Toki Pona, for which the dual panel mode is amazing because there’s a font which translates from Latin characters to full-on Toki Pona hieroglyphs, just as a property of the font:
I know you say that this isn’t what you are looking for, but maybe it’ll help someone else. I looked, and alas there’s no default save path setting, which I think is your real primary unique requirement here.
But there’s another editor you might find interesting. It’s not packaged in Fedora Linux yet, but is on Flathub. It’s called “Norka”, and it saves files automatically and continuously to a sqlite database rather than to flat files. There’s a gconf setting for where this database lives, so you could put that in your synced folder.
I looked, and alas there’s no default save path setting, which I think is your real primary unique requirement here.