• Kate in KDE 4.9

    by  • June 30, 2012 • Common, Developers, Users • 5 Comments

    With KDE SC 4.9 around the corner and according to tradition, it’s time to have a look at what’s new in Kate.

    Improved Support for Custom Color Schemas

    • improved “Colors” tab in the “Fonts & Colors” config page
    • configurable colors: search & replace, code folding, indentation line,
    • schema export and import honor background colors (bug #291868) and font
    • “highlight selection” plugin and “search and replace” plugin now use search & replace colors from Kate’s color schema

    Line Modification System

    • new option to disable in the editor settings: Appearance > Borders > [ ] Show line modification markers
    • colors of the line modification system are configurable

    Build Plugin

    • reworked config page (including advanced settings for remote debugging)
    • support for remote debugging

    Further Changes

    • new option in Open/Save config page: [ ] Add newline at end of file on save
    • all fixes in the bug tracker

    About

    Dominik is a PhD student at the Control Theory and Robotics Lab, TU Darmstadt, as part of the Research Training Group GKMM (GRK1362). My research focuses on state estimation in distributed systems. As hobby, I contribute to the KDE project and work on the Kate application and editor component.

    http://www.kate-editor.org

    5 Responses to Kate in KDE 4.9

    1. bash
      June 30, 2012 at 18:37

      Great work. Thank you!
      Working on Kate is a pleasure.

      Reply
    2. roentgen
      July 2, 2012 at 07:34

      Hello.

      As there’s no love for https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301298 I hope it’s OK I mention about it here.

      Reply
    3. m_goku
      July 14, 2012 at 16:27

      Are there any plan to have GIT integration in KATE? I know KDevelop already have it, but KDevelop is too much for me.

      Reply
      • Christoph Cullmann
        July 14, 2012 at 16:39

        Not really at the moment, if nobody steps up to write a plugin for this ;)

        Reply