As with any new code, during adoption bottlenecks show up. For example the rendering of text lines with many ranges inside was quiet slow. This is now partly addressed by Milian Wolff, thanks a lot. An other bottleneck was the assumption, that it is fast enough to hash the ranges just by their block...
Read more →Last year we already discovered that Kate is truly the only holy text editor* (again thanks to rms for making us aware of it)! (and btw, xkcd is totally wrong). And now we even have yet another proof: The holy Kate maintainer and the naked woman! Enjoy (*) this is an insider from the...
Read more →Dominik already blogged about the issues we have in KatePart with the current SmartRange/SmartCursor/Smart* interfaces that were designed during the early KDE 4.0 release. Given that large amounts of the internal implementation are exposed to the outside in the interfaces, there was no feasible way to fix the issues with them. The problem with...
Read more →Hello, As mid-term evaluations have started, I would like to show my current state of GSoC project, because I’ve never found the time to do it. The swap file feature is implemented, except for the view differences feature and few TODOs. Some more testing need to be done, though. Below are some screenshots of...
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