I grew up using the Mac. I love BBEdit.

How can I replicate this experience on Linux? Specifically, I’m currently trying to extract the text found from a regex search using the Kate text editor.

#Linux #KateEditor #LinuxOnMac #AskFedi

New wishlist-item for #KateEditor :

• a command to "check all open files to see if they exist; close any that do not, and never mention them again ever"

(Do you think your associates can arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?)

#softwareGripe

@cedric
In RKWard we have a data viewer but not a data explorer.

https://rkward.kde.org/

Due to the integration of the Kate text editor, we also have functionality to operate the editor like vi.

https://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/

@schuemaa

#RKWard #kateeditor #vi #rstats

How I use Kate editor

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/

#HackerNews #How #I #use #Kate #editor #KateEditor #TextEditing #OpenSource #Productivity #HackerNews

#KateEditor needs oh-so-many commands it doesn't have, but one I would use often is "return to previous position". If I mistakenly hit Ctrl+Shift+End when I only meant to hit Shift+End, I end up at the end of the file when I only wanted to select to the end of the line.

In TSE, I could hit a key to execute PrevPosition() to be back where I was. But Kate doesn't have this feature, and I have to scroll up until I find my place. Annoying.

Kate might have good code-editing features, but as far as text editing goes, it lacks many basic #TextEditor commands I used in The Semware Editor under Windows.

(UPDATE: I found a way to make the search work; see end.)

Someone made a bad UI design choice...

Just now I do a search/replace in kate (across multiple files) where the replacement string happens to include \t (it's part of a PHP namespace).

Kate replaces those two characters with a TAB, in all the matching files.

Searching for \t does not find the affected text.

Copying the tab from the document and searching for that does not find it either.

I can't even search for [space]t because it used a TAB character, not spaces, in the output -- even though I have editing configured to always use spaces.

ARRGGGH. There are probably about a HUNDRED FILES affected. Maybe more.

#softwareGripe #kateEditor

Update: apparently I needed to paste the tab into a longer string or something, and then it will find matches.

This is still bad UX, though: the "search" text and the "replace" text shouldn't follow different rules.