Kate in KDE 4.9

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
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  • improved “Colors” tab in the “Fonts & Colors” config page
  • configurable colors: search & replace, code folding, indentation line,
  • schema export and import honor background colors (bug #291868) and font
  • “highlight selection” plugin and “search and replace” plugin now use search & replace colors from Kate’s color schema

Line Modification System

  • new option to disable in the editor settings: Appearance > Borders > [ ] Show line modification markers
  • colors of the line modification system are configurable

Build Plugin

  • reworked config page (including advanced settings for remote debugging)
  • support for remote debugging

Further Changes

  • new option in Open/Save config page: [ ] Add newline at end of file on save
  • all fixes in the bug tracker
Tags:  planet

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