Developers 

I want to introduce you my GSoC-2011 project. I was working on improvement the vi input mode for the Kate part.

There are a lot of improvements for normal mode. Now it’s able to use jump list by pressing ctrl-i/ctrl-o in normal mode like in vim. And now not only registers but also marks, and jumps stored in the config of the session. H, M and L commands moves cursor to the first(Home), Middle and Last line of the screen. To go to the any percent of the document you can use the % command by typing the number of percent(1-100) before it. gk and gj motions will make you able to go visual(display) lines up and down. It’s useful when you using line wrap.

Hi everyone!

Kate’s new code folding was merged with the master branch. :)
You can try it by yourself. If you do find any bugs, please send a bug report on KDE’s bug tracker or leave a comment here.
I will use a test unit to solve those bugs, so I will need a full backtrace and some info to help me replicate it.
Please notice that there are no new features added yet – just the basic code folding.

Hey!

The new code folding is taking shape. Actually it is implemented. :)
The next step will be testing it (and debugging, if necessary) and implementing some new features.
Also there are some keyboard shortcuts that didn’t worked so well on the previous version and they need to be fixed too.

If you want to help us with the testing, you can download my clone and play a little with code folding. Also, if you have some ideas about the new features that Kate’s folding should have, let me know. If it is possible and there is time, they will be implemented.
Greetings,
Adrian

Now that the next version of the KDE platform is branched, it’s time to have a look at all the changes in Kate in KDE 4.7.

• More than 150 wishes and issues have been resolved. A detailed list of the resolved  issues can be found in the KDE bug tracker.
• All Kate development is done in the KDE git infrastructure as submodule of kdebase. It is very straight forward to build Kate within a few minutes according to our excellent documentation.
• New Search Plugin with the ability to search in files on disk or opened files (will replace the Find in Files plugin in KDE 4.8).
• Plugin improvements: Build Plugin., GDB Plugin
• Kate’s tab bar plugins gained several new features.
• Swap files: If lost data is found, documents are marked as read-only.
• Further noteworthy changes: Improved printing, change of line ending triggers modified flag, fixed shortcut issues, fixed auto completion popup, and more.

Current State of Kate

Hi!

I bring good news about Kate’s folding today. The algorithm was implemented and tested successfully. ;)
As I mentioned in the previous article, I implemented it in a new (simpler) project. It is a Qt project (developed using Qt Creator) and you can find it in my Kate clone, “tree_alg” folder.

Actually, I have implemented two folding algorithms: one that uses a tree that changes itself dynamically whenever you insert or delete a node, and one based on stack that rebuilds the entire folding tree whenever you insert or delete a node. I needed two algorithms because I wanted to implement an automatic testing mechanism and for that I needed a way to test the output. The second algorithm was easier to be implemented and it was very stable (bug-less) from the beginning, so it was great to use it for my testing.

We’ve managed to push our bugs down from ~430 to ~310 during the last two days. Some bugs are not valid anymore, but lots of bugs also really have been fixed. So in KDE 4.7 we will have the best Kate release ever :-)

Hello guys!

I’m writing my weekly article today because I have already started working on something else. I didn’t have time to finish the previous stage because I started the next phase of the project.

I had a talk with my GSoC mentor and a couple of Kate developers and we all concluded that I should start working on the folding algorithm as soon as possible because this is the main (and most important) part. For this part, I built a small new project that will help me implement the algorithm and test it independently from Kate project. You can find this project (and my Kate clone) at this address. There are not so many methods implemented, but you can figure out how things will be developed.