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Project Management, Take Three

Sunday, 12 August 2012 | Christoph Cullmann


After bit more playing around with the project plugin, I did get aware that I am even to lazy to open project files. Normally if I need to fix something or add new features, I just go to the directory and open the source or build system files I need to work on.  Therefore the project plugin now just watches which files you open and will load the corresponding project on the fly for you ;) (instead of naming your project, you create a .kateproject hidden file in the toplevel project dir, just like Git would do it with its .git directory)

Next issue that arised: even with the simple pattern syntax like:

"files": [ { "directory": "kate", "filters": ["*.cpp", "*.h", "*.ui", "CMakeLists.txt", "Find*.cmake"], "recursive": 1 } ]

it is hard to enumerate all files in the kate.git, as we have .py files, .xml files, .desktop files, .sh files and so on.

As I started here locally to add more and more extensions, I got the impression that just asking Git would be an better idea, and voila:

"files": [ { "directory": "kate", "git": 1, "recursive": 1 } ]

and you get recursively all files that are registered in your Git clone in the kate directory ;)

If you still have SVN, no problem, for your project this will work:

"files": [ { "directory": "kate", "svn": 1, "recursive": 1 } ]

These extensions make creating your Kate project much easier I guess and avoid any battling with regular expressions to keep track of the important files.

Other improvements:

  • Current file will be selected correctly in the projects view
  • Search and Replace is enhanced with an “in Project” option, if the project plugin is loaded and any project active, for this a bit work was needed to allow inter-plugin communication ;)

And again, the mandatory screenshot:

Tags:  planet

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