In the kate.git master branch the text folding is now new and shiny. In addition to be faster and less memory hungry (no folding tree is around if you fold nothing, it is only created on-demand exactly for the folded regions), the new code is less complex and smaller (and hopefully better documented + unit...
Read more →If we look at the incoming bug reports, a lot still seem to be located in our code folding implementation. The problem of the current code folding code, even after the GSoC rewrite of large parts, is that it is inter weaved with the syntax highlighting engine. During highlighting, we try to build up some tree...
Read more →In the recent months Kate saw quite some contributions from developers other than “the usual kate developers”. This is really cool, areas include more work on python plugins, a lot of bug fixing and fine tuning in the vi input mode, an improved python indenter, and more unit tests. Especially one unit test turned...
Read more →In 2012, Kate had a GSoC project with the aim of adding a Scripting IDE plugin. The idea was to make it easy to write Kate Part scripts (command line scripts, indenters), that should include rudimentary code completion and a gui to manage available scripts. As detailed in the blog post, a rudimentary list that...
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