Kate has a new plugin called “Highlight Selection”. Since it is a KTextEditor plugin, it is available for all apps using KatePart (e.g.: Kile, Kate, KWrite, KDevelop etc). What does it do? If you select a whole word, all occurrences of this word are highlighted as well: You can jump to the next occurrence...
Read more →As many other applications Kate has the menu File > Recent Files, which lists all files you recently used. This recent file list right now is per session, i.e., each session has its own entries listed as recent files. Now there is a request to change it such that there is just one single...
Read more →In recent KDE releases up to version 4.4 Kate unfortunately very often selected the wrong encoding. The result is that e.g. german umlauts (öäü) show up as cryptic signs in the text editor. What I’ve seen lots of times is that in this case people start to fix those characters manually for the entire...
Read more →Looking back at the last month, migrating our Kate homepage over to WordPress was a vast success. The useful content we had on our old Drupal was copied over. The benefit of WordPress is that we now have a nice blog software as well with which we even aggregate some external blogs related to...
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