Writing a Kate Plugin
Tuesday, 6 January 2004
| Christoph Cullmann
Warning
This is an outdated tutorial and is only kept here for historical reasons. For an up-to-date version of the tutorial please check https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/kate/plugin/ Introduction First at all, why writing plugins for an editor ? Good question, and I hope I have a good answer: Because we want Kate to be small and all extended features not all users need should go into plugins (like CVS suppport, project managment, coffee cooking ;) Therefore Kate provides a quite full-featured plugin interface and interfaces to all important stuff in the Kate application (the documents, views, windows, sidebar …).
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