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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

I normally enjoy StarCraft 2 in the evening a bit or like now, if it is raining and I have no fun in any more real work.

But just now and some days ago, it has again proven, KDE > StarCraft 2.

Just again, StarCraft 2 (played with wine, thanks a lot wine team, you do a great job!) got sluggish and then terminated.
A quick dmesg call shows the cause.
Like last time, the OOM killer got me.

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 :-)