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Lets fight the bugs (or here bugs fighting each other, from de.wikipedia).

Dominik and I did a nice bug squashing here at Berlin Desktop Summit 2011. We already met some weeks ago to hunt down bugs in Kate at Saarbrücken, but this additional time really helped a lot. The progress of the last 365 days look quiet promising.

We almost missed it, but 10 years ago Kate was included in KDE’s CVS repository and shipped the first time with KDE 2.2. Details about the history can be found here. So Happy Birthday Kate! And Kate in KDE 2.2 looked like this:

The “External Tools” plugin is one of the oldest plugins of Kate. A big hug to Anders Lund for writing it years ago, a lot of people enjoyed using it.

It allows the user to specify own commands (aka snippets of shell programs) to be executed with the text of the current document or the current file.

Hi everyone!

Another season of Google Summer of Code is approaching its end. :(

I feel pretty bad about that, because I enjoy it and I love working on Kate.

I used the last two weeks to solve all the bugs and requests (folding related) from bugs.kde.org. If you find any folded related bugs, please send the report using bugs.kde.org and I will solve them (the warranty period is unlimited, so you don’t have to worry about that ;) )

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