Please see http://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/ for an updated overview of the Kate VI mode project.
I just marked the Vi input mode (“V.I.M.”? ) for the Kate kpart as done in the feature plan for KDE 4.2. It feels a bit weird to mark it as done, though, as there are tonnes of things I want to [...]
The Google summer of code programme’s coding part officially ended this Monday. That won’t be the last you will hear from me, though. Kate’s vi input mode has turned out to be quite nice, and there are lots of improvements I want to do in the coming months. The biggest news are a visual mode + [...]
Read more →I’m one of the lucky students doing a Google Summer of Code project for KDE, and I would like to introduce my project. I’m making a vi-like, modal editing mode for the Kate kpart. I’m doing this because many people—me included—find using a vi-like editor much more efficient and pleasant than using [...]
Read more →During the last weeks/days the directory structure of especially kdelibs/kdeui got a major overhaul: in KDE 3 all files of a module were in the same directory which was more or less a mess as you did not know immediately which files belonged to the same category. kdelibs/kdeui in KDE4 has a rather clean structure [...]
Read more →Text editors and line edits support the so-called triple clicks according to [1]. The document says Triple Click: Select the targeted row. [...] It is unclear whether the “targeted row” includes the trailing linebreak. Kate Part selects the targeted line including the linebreak. You get the following behavior: If you move the selected row with [...]
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