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  Kate Developer Sprint Next Month
Quickies Posted by Dominik Haumann on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @12:52
from the get-an-edge-on-editing dept.
In April there will be a Kate Developer Sprint, similar to previous sprints for Decibel, Akonadi, KDevelop and others. This is a great opportunity as developers interested in development of KDE's text editor will discuss what to do to make Kate the best text editor on earth. This also means lots of polishing so that Kate in KDE 4.1 will shine even more! The meeting will take place from 2008-04-11 till 2008-04-13. The location is hosted by basysKom in Darmstadt, Germany. Many thanks goes especially to the KDE e.V. for their financial support. If you are interested in Kate development, join our mailing list. More to come, stay tuned!


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vi rox!
by bucky hater on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @14:52
Wanna have the best editor as part of KDE? Then think about making some vi-Klone. I hate having to press six quad-bucky combinations to do anything useful... And boy, would it be kool to have a vi capable of using kioslaves and embeddable in other apps as a kpart...
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not much to do...
by anon on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @14:57
make it get the focus to the text edit area when clicking into file selection area.
annoys me every time kate is in background an i click to raise it and can't type cause the focus is in the wrong part of the window.

otherwise it is already the best editor :)
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well. That's easy
by Velvet Elvis on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @15:03
It already is the best text editor on earth. Save yourself some work and go have a beer.

Is Yziz dead btw?
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x-symbol
by ad on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @15:16
I'm still hoping to get X-Symbol like capabilities someday. This would allow to parse tokens and display them as symbols. Some examples of applications are:

LaTeX:
Parse \prod and replace it with a product symbol, \rightarrow with the appropriate arrow, produce super and subscripts, etc etc giving a semi wysiwyg. Would be great for Kile, for instance.

Haskell:
In literature type vars are usually greek letters. Syntax could be provided to obtain that effect, say alpha, beta, alpha_1, beta_1. Some other tokens could be shown as pretty symbols, such as ->, =>, ++...

Theorem Proving:
Coq, Isabelle, et all. All of them use plenty of mathematical notation.

http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net/
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58340
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Love and question
by LB on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @16:05
I really love kate!! One question though, is it possible to start kate without automatically opening the Documents tab? I'm unable to find this option in the menu/settings. Thanks!
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Thank You Kate Devs
by Andrew Matta on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @18:11
I want all you Kate developers to know that I think that Kate is the best multipurpose text editor I have ever used. It pains me to have to use anything else. Please keep up the excellent work. My favorite features of Kate are its speed, ability to handle and keep organized many documents at once, syntax highlighting for every language I've ever tried to use it for, and excellent customizability. I truly appreciate the time you put into making this editor all that it is today, and I hope you can keep all these strengths as KDE moves to version 4.1 and beyond.
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Well firstly
by someone1245 on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @19:16
I'd say at least restore the functionality that was available in 3.5 as a number one priority before thinking of new features, there's quite a few things the old version could do that the new one cannot.
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A treeview and auto-completion will
by Batiste on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @05:28
I know that kate is not meant as a development tool but I personnaly I use it this way.

There is two features that I would love to see in kate:

* a tree view like in textmate
* a programming interface for auto-completion. The idea is to use something like ipython directly in kate.
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scripting
by plo on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @13:24
Is it possible to write scripts (or maybe macros) for kate? I did find a post speaking about scripts in kjs, and in the script folder there is even a lua script, but I didn't find any documentation. It would be very handy for small tasks.
(btw kate in kde4 is easily the best looking editor on the Earth :)
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Love
by DanaKil on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @13:42
yep, thanks a lot for this great tool :)

I just love the new search toolbar and I hope to see something like this in all KDE apps that need it (KWord, Konq... hmmmm)

Maybe the search toolbar could be shown and hidden with the same shortcut (ctrl-f) instead of using Esc to close it ? I've done an extension to do this in firefox 2 years ago and it was quite popular :)
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Please
by begging guy on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @13:54
don't make kate as bloated/useless as kdevelop or quanta. I really love its simplicity and speed.
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Black backgrounds?
by joe l on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @14:16
Is there anyone out there who has a set of KATE syntax highlighting settings suitable for a BLACK background? Old habits die hard.
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Notepad++
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @18:17
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

That is my favorite text editor on any platform. I'd love to see it get a KDE port.
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Just clone NEdit
by Sebastian on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @02:17
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A couple of Emacs features missing
by Emacs User on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @11:00
I just tried kate. Code folding option is great! I was also very impressed that kate noticed that some other program had changed the file and offered to display a colored diff of the change.

I still need some Emacs feature before I can make the switch: c-ident-command (tab to autoident code to correct level) and ediff-buffers. I know about kdiff3, but it's not integrated to the editor.
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KATE is already best on earth!
by Todor on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @07:11
Kate is best!

I love it from the time I first saw it.

These past years helped me do my jobs just-in-time.

Waiting to see it back in kdebase 4.1
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autobookmark
by Chris on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @09:32
I almost hate to bring it up since it seemed to cause some problem, but the old autobookmark plugin feature is something I'd love to see brought in. While it wouldn't be quite as great, simply having a way to save bookmarks as part of a session might help, although autobookmark updated bookmarks whenever a file was saved.
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