• Archive for July, 2006

    Kate: Shortcomings of .kateconfig file

    by  • 2006-07-23 • Common

    Assume you have a .kateconfig file optimized for C++ code that replaces tabs on save. Now you open a Makefile that contains tabs (due to its strict syntax). If you save the Makefile in kate, the tabs then are replaced which results in a corrupted Makefile. In other words: The .kateconfig file applies to every [...]

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    Indentation and Coding Style

    by  • 2006-07-23 • Common

    kdelibs will have coding style conventions. In general. this is not a bad idea. Our 45528 slocs in KatePart all use a consistent indent-width of 2 spaces. Changing this does not really make sense – ok, if svn praise -w (sure, we never need svn blame in our code finally works, we can discuss this [...]

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    Kate Project Plugin

    by  • 2006-07-20 • Common

    It is not a secret that removing Kate’s project manager in KDE 3.5 was not the right thing to do. It seems a lot of people used it and we got many complaints about this decision. That also shows that it is hard go get feedback about what users are really using. If a feature [...]

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