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Woozle HypertwinNew 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?)
devSJR 
@cedric
In RKWard we have a data viewer but not a data explorer.
Due to the integration of the Kate text editor, we also have functionality to operate the editor like vi.
RKWard
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N-gated Hacker News🚨 Stop the presses! 🚨 Breaking news: Someone uses a text editor! 📚 Gather 'round, folks, for the thrilling tale of a #programmer who discovered Kate Editor just two decades after everyone else. 🙄 Stay tuned as we explore every riveting detail of their plugin preferences and the groundbreaking default settings. 🎉💻
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https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/ #BreakingNews #TextEditor #KateEditor #PluginPreferences #DefaultSettings #HackerNews #ngated
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Elias Probst@ToniBarth #KDE's text editing framework had #TTS support for a long time and it was recently improved to be more accessible via the context menu:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/797
A very powerful and versatile editor based on this framework is #Kate:
https://kate-editor.org/
go to BOKatTOOTdotCAT#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.
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.
NotsonobleSo i got one of these doing most of what I want at work for digging through/editing Extreme Networks exos config files. Now I'm working on a really nerdy one.
I can save text files of pathfinder 1e statblocks as *.pf1txt and Kate will highlight stuff like abilities, skills, and other stuff.
Yeah syntax-highlight a textfile for a TTRPG character/monster.
#TTRPG, #kateeditor, #PF1e, #notreallysane
I can save text files of pathfinder 1e statblocks as *.pf1txt and Kate will highlight stuff like abilities, skills, and other stuff.
Yeah syntax-highlight a textfile for a TTRPG character/monster.
#TTRPG, #kateeditor, #PF1e, #notreallysane
Okay, for anyone also having this problem on most linux setups.
/$HOME/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/ probably doesn't exist, but creating it and adding files there does the trick. Now to make it do things in ways that make sense.
That said, the documentation for this is kinda confusing! It reads like you have to rebuild KTextEditor, and from doing extensive file searching, it seems the languages that are predefined are baked in instead of reading the xml files from a default location.
#KDE #kateeditor
/$HOME/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/ probably doesn't exist, but creating it and adding files there does the trick. Now to make it do things in ways that make sense.
That said, the documentation for this is kinda confusing! It reads like you have to rebuild KTextEditor, and from doing extensive file searching, it seems the languages that are predefined are baked in instead of reading the xml files from a default location.
#KDE #kateeditor