#kdekate — Public Fediverse posts

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.

Delete trailing spaces on saving a file? Fine, #KDEKate. But don't delete trailing spaces when I use a #NoBreakSpace.

I write text in the editor and then paste it in sites, and two of the sites I do that on have been updated to delete blank lines. The only way to preserve them is to put a #HardSpace on the line that's supposed to be blank.

If I unthinkingly hit Ctrl+S to save the file after I've methodically inserted a bunch of non-breaking spaces, they vanish. That's annoying.

I really wish you were better, #Kate. Please give me the abilities I had in The Semware Editor on Windows. Abilities you lack, least annoying of the Linux text editors I've tried.

Delete trailing spaces on saving a file? Fine, #KDEKate. But don't delete trailing spaces when I use a #NoBreakSpace.

I write text in the editor and then paste it in sites, and two of the sites I do that on have been updated to delete blank lines. The only way to preserve them is to put a #HardSpace on the line that's supposed to be blank.

If I unthinkingly hit Ctrl+S to save the file after I've methodically inserted a bunch of non-breaking spaces, they vanish. That's annoying.

I really wish you were better, #Kate. Please give me the abilities I had in The Semware Editor on Windows. Abilities you lack, least annoying of the Linux text editors I've tried.

@greenpete
At the level I use the operating systems, #LinuxMint and #LMDE are functionally identical. Things no doubt differ at a deep level, but the deepest thing I do is paste the update command for #Calibre into the terminal.

Programs in the Software Managers have different versions, however. I use #CopyQ #ClipboardManager and #KDEKate #TextEditor. Linux Mint has CopyQ 6.0.1 and Kate 21.12.3, while LMDE has 6.4.0 and 22.12.3. Both have little annoyances in LMDE.

#softwareNitpick #KDEKate

Guys... don't make "cut" the first option in the menu. It's not even alphabetical; "copy" should come first, then "cut". "Copy" is harmless and should be the default accidental-action.

That way I won't be forever accidentally deleting bits of code (and sometimes not noticing until later, when I have no memory of where I pasted it... if I actually got around to pasting it... and it's long gone from the undo buffer).