We have seen how scripting basically works for indentation. It’s also possible to register commandline functions (The command line is bound to F7 by default, or invoke View > Switch to Command Line). We will consider a small example again: sort the selected text. /* kate-script * name: unused * author: foo bar * license: LGPL * version: 1 * kate-version: 3.0 * functions: sorter */ function sorter (){    if (view.hasSelection()) {        var start = view.startOfSelection().line;        var end = view.endOfSelection().line;         var text = document.textRange(start, 0, end, document.lineLength(end));         var lines = text.split(“\n”);        lines.sort();        text = lines.join(“\n”);         view.clearSelection();         document.editBegin();        document.removeText(start, 0, end, document.lineLength(end));        document.insertText(start, 0, text);        document.editEnd();    }} The header line functions:...

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