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The KTextEditor Framework uses the syntax highlighting files provided by the KSyntaxHighlighting Framework since the KDE Frameworks release 5.28. The KSyntaxHighlighting Framework implements Kate’s highlighting system and meanwhile is used in quite some applications (e.g. LabPlot, KDE PIM). What is quite nice is that the KSyntaxHighlighting framework is nicely unit tested. And while we do not have tests for all highlighting files, we still provide some quality assurance through a compile time checker. Read More

NOTE: Please refer to Get It for up-to-date Windows versions We have a new round of Kate installers for Windows. This round comes with some installer-bug fixes (all project plugin dlls) and support for editorconfig files http://editorconfig.org/. In the above screen-shot you can see the project plugin analyzing Kate code. This works if you have cppcheck installed and added to the path. Read More

This release includes all the feature-enhancements the Linux version has received (frameworks announcements for 5.36.0) – Actually working spell-checking. – Possibility to switch interface language. EDIT: Adding an extra fall-back UI language does not wok properly yet. [][2]Kate in Sweedish Grab it now at download.kde.org: Kate-setup-17.04.3-KF5.36-32bit or Kate-setup-17.04.3-KF5.36-64bit Read More

NOTE: Please refer to Get It for up-to-date Windows versions Installers for Kate 17.04.1 are now available for download! This release includes, besides bug-fixing and features, an update to the search in files plugin. The search-while-you-type in the current file should not “destroy” your last search in files results as easily as previously. The search-combo-box-history handling is also improved. Grab it now at download.kde.org: Kate-setup-17.04.1-KF5.34-32bit or Kate-setup-17.04.1-KF5.34-64bit Read More

Recently, the KSyntaxHighlighting framework was added to the KDE Frameworks 5.29 release. And starting with KDE Frameworks 5.29, KTextEditor depends on KSyntaxHighlighting. This also means that KTextEditor now queries KSyntaxHighlighting for available xml highlighting files. As such, the location for syntax highlighting files changed from $HOME/.local/share/katepart5/syntax to $HOME/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax So if you want to add your own syntax highlighting files to Kate/KDevelop, then you have to use the new location. Read More

Hi, in the recent months, I didn’t find much time to spend on Kate/KTextEditor development. But at least I was now able to spend a bit more time on OpenSource & Qt things even during work time in our company. Normally I am stuck there with low level binary or source analysis work. For our products, we were in the need of some online help. As our documentation is delivered as PDFs generated by the tools of the TeX Live distro, a natural idea was to use some PDF viewer and integrate it more tightly in our software than just “open the manual at page 1”. Read More

New Kate installer for Windows! Except for the general bug-fixes and feature additions in Kate and KF5 this installer also fixes a rename file failure bug by including the needed KIO dll. Grab it while it is hot: Kate 16.08.3 KF5.28 64bit or Kate 16.08.3 KF5.28 32bit Read More

Today, KDE Frameworks 5.28 was released with the brand new KSyntaxHighlighting framework. The announcement says: New framework: syntax-highlighting Syntax highlighting engine for Kate syntax definitions This is a stand-alone implementation of the Kate syntax highlighting engine. It’s meant as a building block for text editors as well as for simple highlighted text rendering (e.g. as HTML), supporting both integration with a custom editor as well as a ready-to-use QSyntaxHighlighter sub-class. Read More

In the past, KTextEditor notified the user about externally modified files with a modal dialog. Many users were annoyed by this behavior. Starting with KDE Frameworks 5.27, KTextEditor will show an embedded widget for external changes, see:

Dominik and me got the Akademy 2016 Award for our work on Kate and KTextEditor. I want to pass that on to all other contributors of both the application and the framework: You all rock and people seem to appreciate our work! Lets keep on improving our stuff and providing people with a very usable editor and editor component for various use cases. Read More