News from the Holy Kate Land

Since we now all know that Kate is holy (thanks to rms. By accident, he obviously confused Kate with emacs, though) let’s have a look at what’s going on. In the last months Kate development is quite active, so here is a quick update:

• new: on-the-fly spell checking thanks to Michel Ludwig. Highlights include e.g. spell checking in comments of source code or latex parts. Also, constructs like sch”on work in latex.
• extended scripting support in the command line, more on that later
• more and more mature vi input mode
• lots of bug fixing. quite impressive bug squashing by Pascal Létourneau for more than 4 months now
• lots of refactoring and code cleanups thanks to Bernhard!
• “Find in Files” appears by default again in the tool view,
• “File Browser” uses UrlNavigator, huge code cleanup
• convenience updates of syntax highlighting
• delayed highlighting of code folding ranges to prevent flickering on mouse move
• new command line commands: ‘toggle-header’ in the Open Header plugin. ‘grep’ and ‘find-in-files’
• haskell and lilypond indenter
• much, much more, see commits for details.

Thanks to all contributors involved in Kate development. Keep it up :)