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    Extending Kate with Scripts

    by  • October 29, 2009 • Developers, Users

    As mentioned in one of my last blogs, there has been quite some work for JavaScript scripting support in trunk recently. So what will Kate 3.4 (KDE 4.4) will bring? This is explained in detail in the sections: Indentation Scripting Command Line Scripting Some Remarks The scripting allows to extend Kate with lots of...

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    News from the Holy Kate Land

    by  • September 18, 2009 • Developers, Users

    Since we now all know that Kate is holy (thanks to rms. By accident, he obviously confused Kate with emacs, though) let’s have a look at what’s going on. In the last months Kate development is quite active, so here is a quick update: new: on-the-fly spell checking thanks to Michel Ludwig. Highlights include...

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    On-the-fly spellchecking in Kate

    by  • July 7, 2009 • Developers, Users

    Christoph just added an awesome and long awaited feature: on-the-fly spellchecking. ‘Kate’s xml highlighting files now have an additional attribute in the itemData section: spellChecking=”true/false”. C++ comments and strings can be spellchecked now Same for all other languages such as Latex. Really big thanks to Michel Ludwig for the patch, good work! Screenshot for...

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    Kate Test Regression Suite

    by  • June 7, 2009 • Developers

    This blog is mainly about documenting the process how to run Kate Part’s test regression suite and probably not much use for other developers. Step I: Setup the environment create the file ~/.testkateregression. The content of this file is a single line pointing to the folder of the checkout of the test regression suite...

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