SmartCursors and SmartRanges in KDE 4.0 – KDE 4.4 Since KDE 4.0 the KTextEditor interfaces have so called SmartCursors and SmartRanges. A SmartCursor is a text cursor (i.e. a line/column tuple) , which is bound to a text document. When editing the text document, the cursor is automatically moved such that it maintains its...
Read more →A while ago I’ve blogged about the Kate’s most powerful plugins: the XML completion plugin. Thanks to Tomáš Trnka this plugin is back alive with all its features since today and compiled by default in trunk: It will be included in KDE 4.5. Yay! And if you need it already now for KDE 4.4,...
Read more →Since all of the Kate code is now co-hosted on gitorious, it became very easy to build Kate in your stable KDE >= 4.4 environment. This means you can run the newest version of Kate with very few effort. Just give it a try and do the following steps: make sure you have the...
Read more →Right now, in Kate’s gitorious repository we, or rather mainly Christoph, is rewriting the heart of Kate: The text buffer. In this blog I’ll explain how the text buffer works in detail. After reading, you’ll be able to understand the code. And be warned: Probably you will be desperately amazed about its awesomeness! So...
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