I’m a Python newbie, so if you are at least that good , you should be able to dive in and write useful Python plugins for your favourite editor too! This is the first in what I hope will be a series of notes and tutorials to help you along the way. Where can...
Read more →With KDE SC 4.9 around the corner and according to tradition, it’s time to have a look at what’s new in Kate. Improved Support for Custom Color Schemas improved “Colors” tab in the “Fonts & Colors” config page configurable colors: search & replace, code folding, indentation line, schema export and import honor background colors...
Read more →KDE 4.9 has branched, and so the Pâté plugin ”host” for Python plugins has moved from Kate’s playground to be a mainstream plugin. Since a plugin-for-plugins might be a bit confusing, here is a quick tour of how it is managed and works, and especially a few rough edges it still has. NOTE If you’ve installed...
Read more →So there I am, a confirmed Kate user, and now I need to find my way around a codebase of over 100,000 files using GNU ID utils. The rather crude answer for Kate 3 was to write a wrapper around the lid(1) utility and the DCOP scripting interface of Kate, all driven from the...
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