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    Kate Part in upcoming KDE 3.5.4

    by  • June 28, 2006 • Common

    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...

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    Kate Modes & Filetypes

    by  • February 9, 2006 • Common

    Modes allow the user to override the default configuration for documents of specified mimetypes or file extensions. When the editor loads a document and the mimetype or file extensions match for one of the defined filetypes, KatePart will read the configuration from the mode and apply the modelines defined. If more filetypes match, the...

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    .kateconfig Files

    by  • February 9, 2006 • Common

    Kate allows you to specify local document variables by setting the corresponding modelines. The hidden file .kateconfig provides exactly the same functionality, but for all files in the directory. Enable the Feature To use a .kateconfig file you first have to enable the feature by invoking Settings > Configure Kate. In the config page...

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    Writing a Syntax Highlighting File

    by  • March 24, 2005 • Common

    Note: Please refer to the Kate Handbook for the most recent version of how to write syntax highlighting files. This section is an overview of the Highlight Definition XML format in KDE4. Based on a small example it will describe the main components and their meaning and usage. The next section will go into...

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