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In KDE 4, you can open a new window for Kate via “View -> New Window”.

This won’t start a new application instance but just add an other Kate main window to the current instance (which shows the same documents & session & projects).

This is kind of complex to handle internally and we think about dropping that behavior and instead launching just an other Kate application instance if you trigger that menu action.

After starting the “frameworks” branch in kate.git more than a week ago but doing not much beside an initial KTextEditor compile & link port I felt a big guilty ;)

Given a lot of people blog about the progress of programs X and Y for Qt 5.2 and KDE Frameworks 5 I guess it is time that KatePart joins this club.

Some hours later, a ‘working’ version of KatePart and KWrite have landed in the “frameworks” branch of kate.git. KWrite launches, loads the part and the open action even works (command line parsing is off-line btw. ATM).

After thinking some days about how to tackle the 4.x => 5.x transition in Kate (KTextEditor/Part/Application) and the nice “what we should do” blog by Dominik, I think the time for fun is there.

Therefore I started to port our stuff to KF5 in the “frameworks” branch.

The basic idea would be: get it compiling and running.

Then we can decide if the frameworks branch is a mere “hack to see if it works” experiment which can be later used to port master without a lot of work or if we say “ok, works kind of well” and we just switch development over for new features from master to frameworks and with that from 4.x to 5.x.

KDE has a very handy feature to switch keyboard layouts on the fly. This is for instance useful if you use the German keyboard layout by default, and the US layout for programming. To enable keyboard layout switching, go into System Settings > Input Devices (category Hardware) > Keyboard item > Layouts tab:

Here, ‘[x] Configure layouts‘ is checked, enabling the list view. I added the German keyboard layout, and then the English (US) layout. Notice also, that the shortcut is set to ‘Ctrl+Alt+K‘. Clicking apply, a tiny little indicator appears in the panel:

Hi all,

Just an eye-glazingly brief blog post about some of the stuff I’ve been working on in the Kate Vim emulation mode since my last blog. Once more, I’ll mostly be dumping them all as bullet points, Gräßlin-Style™, with some longer sections on the more important changes, but this time around I’ve added some nifty animated gifs which you can skip to should the full text prove too harrowing!

Hi,

if you ever use the TBB (Intel Threading Building Blocks) allocator to overwrite malloc/free/* and want to use Valgrind for leak checking and fail, here is the simple trick to get it working:

valgrind --soname-synonyms=somalloc=\*tbbmalloc\* <your-application-here>

I missed that hint in the Valgrind documentation for my first tries ;)

Btw., the scalable allocator from TBB is a really BIG improvement over the normal system allocator on current Linux & Windows machines if you allocate mostly fixed size small object, like what happens if you heavily use STL data structures like std::map/set that are implemented as trees and you have other stuff like DOM/AST like data structures (even in the single threaded case, for which it just saves a LOT of memory).

In my job I work on binary and source level analysis software running on Linux and Windows. One of my tasks is to maintain the build farm and compile environment, therefore I am responsible for keeping care of the compilers and libraries we use (like the beloved Qt, congratulations for the nice 5.1 release, btw.).

For Linux, we normally use the GNU C/C++ compiler. That works out very well since years. We have hit compiler bugs only a few times and there was always already some patch-release out in the wild that fixed our issues. In addition the GCC developers brought a constant stream of improvements in the area of C and C++ standard compliance. I am more than happy with the GCC quality.

I have done some improvements in the plugins: python_console_ipython, python_autocomplete, python_utils, js_utils, xml_pretty and django_utils. These plugins I added a month and a half ago (except python_console_ipython) to the kate repository. I have done two improvements and a new feature:

• Now they work with Python2 and Python3 (except python_autocomplete, this only works with Python2, due pysmell dependence)
• Now they have a configuration page (except python_autocomplete, this should not have configuration parameters)

In the kate.git master branch the text folding is now new and shiny.

In addition to be faster and less memory hungry (no folding tree is around if you fold nothing, it is only created on-demand exactly for the folded regions), the new code is less complex and smaller (and hopefully better documented + unit tested, it actually has a test for most internal operations).

There is actually now a clean separation, the folding does not mix with highlighting and can be used without it, too.