Kate Turning 10 Years Old

http://kate-editor.org/2011/08/11/kate-turning-10-years-old/

by Garbage • 15 years ago

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kraemate• 15 years ago

Kate really combines all the good KDE features, in particular its usage of Kparts is excellent. You get complete shell integration, tabs, snippets, loads of plugins, split-views, highlighting etc. The most feature complete editor after emacs, probably.

nfm• 15 years ago

"The most feature complete editor after emacs, probably."

That's a pretty bold claim, particularly given the subset of features you listed!

alexis-d• 15 years ago

Are you kidding? Vim has all the features you listed and many more...

FlowerPower• 15 years ago

If you install and configure 2000 plugins. Might as well make your own editor.

rplnt• 15 years ago

I love the variable coloring. Been using Kate for one C project (inside the KDevelop) and had no problems with it.

kunley• 15 years ago

Does it have buffers (as opposite to files) abstraction, ie. can you open the same file in different windows and work on different parts of it?

cpuddle• 15 years ago

Yes you can. I've done it myself many times.

Steve_Baker• 15 years ago

Yes, you just split the current view (vertically or horizontally) or open a new window. Any change to a file will be immediately updated in the other views/windows.

scotty79• 15 years ago

My text editor of choice for many years.

coffeeaddicted• 15 years ago

Yeah, for me as well. But currently using scite because I haven't figured out yet how to disable all the warning messages which kate prints when started from console in Debian Squeeze. Anyone got an idea?

jodoherty• 15 years ago

I'm not a kate user, but what about just redirecting all the console output to /dev/null ? Then you shouldn't get any output, and so you can just send it straight to the background.

$ kate &> /dev/null &

dimmuborgir• 15 years ago

Probably the most underrated text editor. It pains me to no end that KDE and its applications don't get the attention they rightly deserve.

s-phi-nl• 15 years ago

Even if KDE did get more attention, on openSuSE (which seems to have a fairly large proportion of KDE users compared to other distros) Kate does not come preinstalled even with KDE. Anyone know why?

dekken_2• 15 years ago

Anybody know a way to hook windows/cygwin into the terminal on the windows version of kate?

It's highly unlikely but doesn't hurt to ask. :)

patches• 15 years ago

It's available in the Cygwin/X11 version of KDE from Cygwin Ports http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/

There has been talk of porting Konsole to native Windows, but thus far no action.

dekken_2• 15 years ago

Wow, thanks!

If anyone tries this and ends up with a "Setup.ini signature <@ URL> failed to verify"

add the -X option to the cygstart call; e.g.: C:/<path/to/cygwin/bin/>cygstart.exe <path to cygwin/setup.exe> -X -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg

Credit to: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/342

zem2• 15 years ago

if kate had ever included a stable, usable vimpart, it would have been my ideal editor.

jacobr• 15 years ago

Vim mode for Kate was a GSoC project, expect improvements soon.

zem2• 15 years ago

wow, this year's gsoc? that would be excellent, i was sad when the original vimpart and then yzis both went nowhere.

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