devSJR  Jun 29, 2025

@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

RKWard

Download RKWard 0.8.2 - for macOS | Windows | GNU/Linux See more screenshots. Features RKWard's features include: Spreadsheet-like data editor Syntax highlighting, code folding and code completion Data import (e.g. SPSS, Stata and CSV) Plot preview and browsable history R package management Workspace browser GUI dialogs for all kinds of statistics and plots RKWard's features can be extended by plugins, and it's all free software. See our mission statement.

RKWard
hardtech.ftsApr 27, 2025
As a #programmer but #beginner I already know that documentation is important: that's why I'll make a website to document my adventures and potential progress.
If you have any resources that you think could help me, do not hesitate a second!
If you have any tools to advise, do not hesitate a second!
I'm considering using  #fedora #Kinoite with #toolbx or something like #RockyLinux (but if you have other distros to advise, tell me) with  #kdevelop #codelite for C++, #spyder or #pycharm for Python 🐍 and #rustrover or #lapce for Rust 🦀 and  #kateeditor for simple file edition.
#programmers #programming #programmation #coding #coders #coders #python #cpp #Rust #rustlang #linux #foss #fosstodon #floss #flosstodon #Dev #devlog #devlife #devloper #devlopers
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 21, 2025
🚨 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. 🎉💻
https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/ #BreakingNews #TextEditor #KateEditor #PluginPreferences #DefaultSettings #HackerNews #ngated
How I use Kate Editor

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Hacker NewsApr 21, 2025

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

How I use Kate Editor

Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.

Show threadElias ProbstMar 31, 2025

@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/

#KateEditor #TextToSpeech

go to BOKatTOOTdotCATMar 30, 2025

#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.

Woozle HypertwinFeb 26, 2025

(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.

Show threadNotsonobleJan 23, 2025
So 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
Show threadNotsonobleJan 22, 2025
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
AndrewJan 22, 2025

So many #KDE applications work great on Windows, it’s ridiculous. #Krita? #KateEditor? #Kdenlive? Awesome! #KDEConnect? Chef’s kiss!

Kind of sad that there are no versions of #KTorrent or #Gwenview.

So, yeah, what’s my operating system? #Firefox.
No, but really? KDE and #Nushell.
Stop it, be serious, what’s underneath?! Who cares.