• ID + etags > ID || etags

    by  • November 22, 2012 • 7 Comments

    ID files and TAGS files are generated by GNU idutils and etags respectively. They are often used in coding projects to facilitate looking up, for example, the name of a function, and then visiting where it is defined, etc. In large projects, ID files can be hundres of MB in size, and TAGS files...

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    Bug Hunting – Please help poor Kate ;)

    by  • November 9, 2012 • 2 Comments

    The Kate/KDevelop sprint in Vienna was a really productive time. Thanks to Joseph Wenninger for organizing it and the KDE e.V. for the additional funding! The Kate team was able to really wade through a lot of bugs & wishes and fix/invalidate a lot of them. After some more days of work, this really is visible...

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    Default Color Schemas

    by  • November 7, 2012 • 19 Comments

    With KDE 4.10, the naming of the color schemas in Kate Part changed. Instead of having “<app name> – Normal” and “<app name> – Printing” we now just have “Normal” and “Printing,” meaning that all applications using Kate Part now share these color schemas. In other words: If you change the Normal schema in...

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    Kate Scripting Updates & Zen-like Quick Coding

    by  • November 6, 2012 • 4 Comments

    In KDE >= 4.10, Kate Part’s scripting changed a bit. The changes are already documented in the Kate handbook, but we’ll quickly have a look into it now anyway. Prior to KDE SC 4.10, scripts in Kate Part always had to contain the “type” in the scripting header, like indentation or command. This was...

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