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News from the Holy Kate Land

Thursday, 17 September 2009 | Dominik Haumann


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 :)