• Archive for July, 2009

    Followup on Kate’s on-the-fly spellchecking

    by  • 2009-07-8 • Users

    As there was a lot of feedback in the last blog, I’ll answer some of the questions here. > Where can I get this patch? The relevant subversion revisions are r992778, r992779, r992780, r992784. > Will it be available in 4.3, or only in 4.4? As KDE 4.3 will be released end of the month, [...]

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    How Kate got X-rated

    by  • 2009-07-8 • KDE

    (Ok, not really.)

    Kate’s maintainer, Christoph Cullmann, shared a funny story over a beer one of the first days here at GCDS.

    In ye olden days, what is now Kate and Kwrite was one application called “KWrite – KDE’s Advanced Text Editor”. However, the author of Kwrite mysteriously disappeared. Christoph forked Kwrite and continued working on …

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    On-the-fly spellchecking in Kate

    by  • 2009-07-7 • Developers, Users

    Christoph just added an awesome and long awaited feature: on-the-fly spellchecking. ‘Kate’s xml highlighting files now have an additional attribute in the itemData section: spellChecking=”true/false”. C++ comments and strings can be spellchecked now Same for all other languages such as Latex. Really big thanks to Michel Ludwig for the patch, good work! Screenshot for latex [...]

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