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  1. I hate my text editor now, Kate. The version on Ubuntu 24 has been outdate for a while now, as they focus on main branch. Fine, whatever. But now somebody has decide to backport something and it breaks the indentation settings.

    There'll be zero value in reporting this as the "focus on main". This type of stuff angers me.

    I really need a new text editor, yet never actually found one that supports multiple windows for the same instance.

    #coding #kate

  2. What does red dot mean next to .gitignore in #Kate editor's file browser? #KDE

    Search hasn't led me to the answer, and I can't find it mentioned in kate.pdf from kde.org site.

    Thanks

  3. Looks like for everyday notes I will go to back SublimeText because all that I can fing about #Kate is that it should be able to keep unsaved files in session. But it is not doing that! Cool, cool, cool.

  4. Me being very annoyed about #Kate loosing unsaved files from session when closed.
    Me: installs #Notepadqq
    Me: oh, this looks cool, why I didn't tried it earlyier?
    Notepadqq: crashes after 15 seconds.
    Me: oh, right, thats why. I did try it.

    #LinuxJourney

  5. Texteditor - teste gerade Alternativen für notepadqq unter Debian für die kleinen dev tasks zwischendurch - Kate, notepadnext, neovim, zed - wird vermutlich Kate.

    Tipps und Anregungen sind willkommen :)

    #linux #editor #texteditor #notepad #notepadqq #kate #coding #scripting #psedit #windows #wechselzulinx #did #diday #didit #vim #neovim

  6. Previsualizar archivos MarkDown en el editor Kate de #KDE

    Veamos cómo previsualizar el renderizado de archivos en formato markdown en el editor Kate de KDE

    victorhckinthefreeworld.com/20

  7. Installed Linux Mint 22.3 yestereve on my third 128 GB M.2 stick, and I'm typing in it now. Not a complete install, since I have more programs to add, more config to do. But I'm going to do another one, because some things went awry, while others went better.

    Awry: I forgot to wipe the SSD before installing LM, and now I have a grub menu on startup, even though I let the installation overwrite everything on the drive, so there's nothing else to boot to. I don't like that, even though it's mostly cosmetic.

    Better: I usually install #Kate text editor from the repo, which has version 23.08.5. It has some oddity where emojis lose their color. (See post toot·cat/@bok/115930009594975107 .) This time I installed the #KDEKate flatpak, 26.04.1, and emojis appear properly in it.

    So I'm swapping sticks again, and will do a wipe and reinstall on a different drive.

  8. I submitted a report to Kate text editor today regarding the status bar not including newlines, which makes it really difficult for users to use Kate for situations like writing a Alt Text for Misskey (only 512 characters are allowed including newlines) or places like VRChat biographies (only 512 characters are allowed including newlines)
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520257 #KDE #Kate

  9. Ich arbeite mit #kde und dem Texteditor #kate . Aber so etwas simples wie die zuletzt geöffneten Dateien wird mir nicht zuverlässig angezeigt: Manche sind da, andere nicht.

    Kann es daran liegen, dass manche Dateien auf einer anderen Partition liegen? Oder zeigt Kate nur Dateien, die auch von KDE indiziert sind, an? Das fände ich ziemlichen Quatsch.
    #linux #kde

  10. Chissá perchè la principessa #Kate è arrivata a Reggio Emilia a bordo di una #BMW targata Monaco.

  11. If you happen to like @kde s #Kate #Editor an want to use #vhdl_ls LSP, here's a configuration snipped for you:

    ```
    {
    "servers": {
    "vhdl": {
    "command": ["vhdl_ls"],
    "url": "github.com/VHDL-LS/rust_hdl",
    "highlightingModeRegex": "^VHDL$",
    "rootIndicationFileNames": ["vhdl_ls.toml"]
    }
    }
    }
    ```

    The `rootIndicationFileNames` property did the trick for me. Before it would not care to check the project-local `vhdl_ls.toml` file.

    If you wonder why the heck anyone would do VHDL to themselves: Lucky you, you're beautiful.

  12. Are the Kate developers being held at gunpoint against their will?

    Why is the default setting now TWO dialogue boxes to get to the text editor?

    Annoyed me enough to dig through the settings to find the toggle for a new session by default, and to turn of the annoying "Welcome" tab that I don't use, because KRunner already has text file search on.

    #KDE #Kate #Linux
  13. A story of #Kate editor from #KDE:

    Moving a file by *renaming* (e.g. from blah.txt to subfolder/blah.txt) spares the time it takes to close the file in the editor, then manually move it, then reopen in the editor.

    However Kate's document selector recently (april 2026) forgot what a POSIX path is and seems to believe that ".." is a valid folder name, and happily renders two impossible parent folders 🤡

    #bug #posix

  14. Because I couldn't attach it to my original post, here's a RAM usage comparison between Kate and Notepad. #kate #KDE