Thanks to Frank we have a dedicated section for Kate Highlighting files on kde-files.org now. We encourage everyone to publish their .xml files there. The Kate team agreed to add more highlighting files to the official Kate releases, though, as long as they are of general use. For KDE4 we plan to have a section [...]
Read more →Two years ago we had the KDE conference in Ludwigsburg, Germany. At that time, Martijn Klingens committed a patch to show trailing spaces in Kate. I just change the visualization a bit, the change is in for KDE4 Tabs are marked with a ‘»’ character, and spaces with a dot. On the left you can [...]
Read more →…and this time it turns out that I am going to akademy. Dublin I’m coming, wheee!
Read more →Since KDE 3.5.4 Kate Part supports “smart end“. Right now it behaves like this when pressing “end”: go to last non-space character go to the last character (i.e. hit end twice) I’m writing this blog to get feedback about what’s the right/expected behaviour. Is it as described above, or should we first go to the [...]
Read more →Finally, KDE 3.5.4 is out! We were able to fix a lot of issues in Kate and the bug curves went noticeably down. Thanks to all contributors for the nice KDE release
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Text editors and line edits support the so-called triple clicks according to [1]. The document says Triple Click: Select the targeted row. [...] It is unclear whether the “targeted row” includes the trailing linebreak. Kate Part selects the targeted line including the linebreak. You get the following behavior: If you move the selected row with [...]
Read more →The last week was highly productive for Kate Part, as the following bugs were fixed: 89042 while pressing “del” key kate crashes (crash, bt) 103648 Codefolding Crash – Reproducable 118584 scroll position not upgrading (dynamic word wrap) 119435 kate crash when a file is saved 123315 kwrite/kate crashes randomly after save 124102 changing syntax highlighting [...]
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