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-=Advanced text editing with Kate=-

People make fun of the Free Software community by saying we make too many text editors.  This is true but they all have missing features.  If you mind the FVWM screenshot from Chris's talk a good text editor was one thing missing back then.  Hence Kate.

!!!Joseph Wenninger 

Kate is almost as old as KDE.  Ancestor is KWrite, one file per window, no plugin support

Inserting text can be done with insert file plugin or the output of a command line tool.  Demonstration of taking dumpAlarm() function from KOrganiser's dcop interface, dragging it from kdcop and running it with output going to Kate.  Kate has a command line which you can start with F7, you can run external tools from this.

Next version of Kate will have JavaScript ability.  JavaScript is a simple and popular language.  Some examples were shown.  He showed using the Kate Javascript console.

There are plugins in the kdeaddons module.  C++ symbol viewer, file templates can create customisable templates e.g. c++ file templates, modline plugin to understand idents, XML check plugin.  XML-Tools for XML or HTML authors give you completion of tags.

Syntax highlighting is very advanced.  Demonstration of a syntax highlighting file.

Does Kate have word count?  No although that could be done with external tools.