Finally, I came around to implement scripted actions for Kate in KDE SC 4.6. Let’s take a look at how this works. When Kate starts, it searches for $KDEDIRS/share/apps/katepart/script/ for *.js files. As example, let’s take a look at utils.js there: /* kate-script * author: Dominik Haumann * license: LGPL * revision: 3 *...
Read more →Back in February, I blogged about Kate’s move to gitorious. The main reason for this move was to make building Kate as easy as possible. If you want to build Kate as part of KDE, (as of now) you have to compile kdesupport, phonon, dbusmenu-qt, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase for kwrite and kdesdk for the...
Read more →Let’s have a quick look at how to debug Kate and KWrite with Qt Creator. First, make sure you meet the requirements: build Kate according to this tutorial install Qt-Creator (in my case this is version 2.0.0) Setup the Kate project Qt-Creator once like this start Qt-Creator like this (important to get all environment...
Read more →We still have a crash in Kate’s code folding code; no one was able to find a proper fix, yet. So if you want to get your hands dirty, just build Kate, find a fix and be the hero of all Kate developers Update: Fixed by Stefan Schenk in this commit for KDE 4.5....
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