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Added “gq” (format text) command for the Vi Input Mode

Friday, 12 August 2011 | Erlend Hamberg | Tags: planet vi input mode

It’s been a nice week here in Berlin at the Desktop summit. I have even got some coding done. A command I often missed from Vim was the gq command that re-formats text based on your text width setting. For example, if you want to stick to a sixty-columns layout, you often have to re-format the text when adding or removing something, like in this screenshot where some text has been surrounded by HTML tags: Read More

Bug Fight!

Friday, 12 August 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

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.

Kate Turning 10 Years Old

Thursday, 11 August 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

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:

Plasma Active, the stage is yours

Thursday, 11 August 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

Thanks a lot to Intel for passing around the ExoPC at the AppUp workshop yesterday. Its kind of nice hardware to start developing for Intel based tablets, whereas for normal use, the battery life and weight is kind of problematic. I really like the idea to be able to write nice and shiny Qt applications which run both on MeeGo and Windows and the AppUp store is really open in respect to allowing distribute open source software. Read More

Maintainer Needed: Kate – External Tools Plugin

Tuesday, 9 August 2011 | Christoph Cullmann | Tags: planet

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.

GSoC – Kate Code Folding (Bug-less)

Sunday, 7 August 2011 | Adrian Lungu

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 ;) )

Kate Vi Mode Test Suite – GSoC 2011

Sunday, 7 August 2011 | Svyatoslav Kuzmich

This summer vi mode has a new test suite. Now there are over 250 tests and the number of them still growing.
It’s very easy to add a new test. All you need is just to add the
DoTest(“Original text”,”Vi command”,”Expected text after doing vi command”);
line to part/tests/vimode_test.cpp.
Format for command with CTRL – modifier: \ctrl-x, for command -mode command: \:command\.
There are little restriction: you can’t input text while being in input mode. Read More

Code Folding Updates

Sunday, 31 July 2011 | Dominik Haumann | Tags: planet

As you may know the Kate code folding implementation gets some love these days. The last days, several bug fixes dropped in by our GSoC student. And the good news is that if all works well, we’ll be able to backport these fixes so that the code folding is much more robust in our beloved Kate even in KDE 4.7.x. These changes probably fix several crashes that were around since 2005 as well. I believe the word we’re looking for is: owned! :-) Read More

GSoC – Kate Code Folding (some more details about folding)

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 | Adrian Lungu

Hi!

Yesterday I received a comment on my previous blog post that it would be nice to give some more technical details about the folding.

Initially, this was a comment response, but because it proved to be pretty interesting and more of you read the articles than the comments, I decided to post it as an article :)

Here are some details that you could find interesting:

Kate Vi Input Mode – GSoC 2011

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 | Svyatoslav Kuzmich | Tags: planet

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.