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Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by eropple » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:15 PM UTC

riidom wrote: post #8

cullmann wrote: post #2

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Can we stop downvoting the OP for giving a tldr of their submission :)

The author wrote the post and already provided a different HN post title than the article title. That tl;dr (which isn't, it doesn't communicate a meaningful takeaway) could have been lightly edited into the HN submission title in the first place.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by speakspokespok » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:15 PM UTC

Does anybody know why Kate wants to install pulseaudio on OpenBSD? This would be a perfect IDE.

   kate-23.08.4:libltdl-2.4.2p2: ok
   useradd: Warning: home directory `/var/run/pulse' doesn't exist, and -m was not specified
   kate-23.08.4:pulseaudio-17.0p0: ok
   kate-23.08.4:pcaudiolib-1.2: ok
   kate-23.08.4:espeak-1.51p2: ok
   kate-23.08.4:dotconf-1.3p0: ok
   kate-23.08.4:py3-xdg-0.28p2: ok
   kate-23.08.4:speech-dispatcher-0.11.5: ok

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by presbyterian » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:16 PM UTC

Kate is such an impressive editor, I’m glad that it’s being worked on and ported to other operating systems, and I didn’t know it had LSP support now! Good to see! If anything happens to BBEdit, Kate may be my next move

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by p4bl0 » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:21 PM UTC

riidom wrote: post #3

Kate was, beside Dolphin one of my earliest and most positively surprising discoveries on KDE. Kate fulfills for me the role that Np++ had back in the windows days. I use it when I want to work file based and not project- or directory based.

If you need to work file based and not project or directory based then you should probably be using Kwrite, which literary is a stripped down version of Kate specifically for this purpose.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by ognarb » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:24 PM UTC

speakspokespok wrote: post #12

Does anybody know why Kate wants to install pulseaudio on OpenBSD? This would be a perfect IDE. kate-23.08.4:libltdl-2.4.2p2: ok useradd: Warning: home directory `/var/run/pulse' doesn't exist, and -m was not specified kate-23.08.4:pulseaudio-17.0p0: ok kate-23.08.4:pcaudiolib-1.2: ok kate-23.08.4:espeak-1.51p2: ok kate-23.08.4:dotconf-1.3p0: ok kate-23.08.4:py3-xdg-0.28p2: ok kate-23.08.4:speech-dispatcher-0.11.5: o…

For text to speech.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by aspyct » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

Kate was my first code editor on Linux. Learned PHP and python on it.

I still have nostalgia with the pink syntax coloring it has (had?) for python!

Thanks a lot to all the contributors, sure had an impact on my life!

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by ixaxaar » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:37 PM UTC

aspyct wrote: post #16

Kate was my first code editor on Linux. Learned PHP and python on it. I still have nostalgia with the pink syntax coloring it has (had?) for python! Thanks a lot to all the contributors, sure had an impact on my life!

I wrote a part of the kernel (uitron) for Toshiba SSDs that went into macbooks around 2013 on kate. It was my first and favorite editor :D

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by binkHN » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

p4bl0 wrote: post #14

riidom wrote: post #3

Kate was, beside Dolphin one of my earliest and most positively surprising discoveries on KDE. Kate fulfills for me the role that Np++ had back in the windows days. I use it when I want to work file based and not project- or directory based.

If you need to work file based and not project or directory based then you should probably be using Kwrite, which literary is a stripped down version of Kate specifically for this purpose.

I absolutely love KWrite to do something in a pinch!

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by heavyset_go » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

Kate + LSP servers can get you really far as a pseudo-IDE. It's one of my favorite editors.

If you want to use it on other platforms, though, you have to dig around Gitlab build artifacts to grab recent successful builds. Looks like that may have changed.

Re: Kate editor on all platforms

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Post by tredre3 » Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 7:41 PM UTC

topato wrote: post #9

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like Dolphin is even better than Explorer, Kate is even better than Notepad++!

That is a wild accusation. I need to install a nightly of Kate and give it another chance, if it's truly as good as you say. Np++ is starting to annoy me, with it's constant reopening of like 50 files every time it's started lol.

You can disable that in the settings, it's under the "Backup" category.