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Kate Turning 10 Years Old

51 points by Garbage 15y ago

kraemate 15y 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 15y 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 15y ago
  Are you kidding? Vim has all the features you listed and many more...
  - FlowerPower 15y ago
    If you install and configure 2000 plugins. Might as well make your own editor.
    - alecbenzer 15y ago
      yes, clearly installing plugins is only barely easier than writing them yourself. plugins let vim users pick and choose what they want from their editor. I'm not bashing kate; it's just a different way of doing it. (vim user myself, though I used to be a big fan of kate)
- rplnt 15y ago
  I love the variable coloring. Been using Kate for one C project (inside the KDevelop) and had no problems with it.
- kunley 15y 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 15y ago
    Yes you can. I've done it myself many times.
  - Steve_Baker 15y 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 15y ago
My text editor of choice for many years.
- coffeeaddicted 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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_ 15y 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 15y ago
  It's available in the Cygwin/X11 version of KDE from Cygwin Ports http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ There has been talk of porting Konsole to native Windows, but thus far no action.
  - dekken_ 15y 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 http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg Credit to: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/342 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/342
zem 15y ago
if kate had ever included a stable, usable vimpart, it would have been my ideal editor.
- jacobr 15y ago
  Vim mode for Kate was a GSoC project, expect improvements soon.
  - zem 15y ago
    wow, this year's gsoc? that would be excellent, i was sad when the original vimpart and then yzis both went nowhere.

51 points by Garbage 15y 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 15y 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 15y ago
Are you kidding? Vim has all the features you listed and many more...
- FlowerPower 15y ago
  If you install and configure 2000 plugins. Might as well make your own editor.
  - alecbenzer 15y ago
    yes, clearly installing plugins is only barely easier than writing them yourself. plugins let vim users pick and choose what they want from their editor. I'm not bashing kate; it's just a different way of doing it. (vim user myself, though I used to be a big fan of kate)
rplnt 15y ago
I love the variable coloring. Been using Kate for one C project (inside the KDevelop) and had no problems with it.
kunley 15y 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 15y ago
  Yes you can. I've done it myself many times.
- Steve_Baker 15y 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 15y ago

My text editor of choice for many years.

coffeeaddicted 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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_ 15y 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 15y ago
It's available in the Cygwin/X11 version of KDE from Cygwin Ports http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ There has been talk of porting Konsole to native Windows, but thus far no action.
- dekken_ 15y 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 http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg Credit to: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/342 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/342

zem 15y ago

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

jacobr 15y ago
Vim mode for Kate was a GSoC project, expect improvements soon.
- zem 15y ago
  wow, this year's gsoc? that would be excellent, i was sad when the original vimpart and then yzis both went nowhere.