Questions tagged [kate]

Kate is an advanced text editor for programmers.

Kate is a text editor for programmers. It is part of the KDE community. Kate has syntax highlighting for more than 200 file types and supports file-specific indenting and folding rules.

Kate has a Vi input mode that support most basic Vi commands and Vim extensions such as text objects.

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How do I enable c++17 language in Kate text editor?

Meaning enabling proper syntax and error highlighting, and suggestions. I'm not building my program through Kate, only editing code. When I try to write the following in Kate (in a file called main.cpp that Kate uses c++ syntax highlighting etc.…
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How can I configure the kate editor to use only the filename and not the full file path for selection of file type

I am using Kate 3.14.8 to edit various file types including Makefiles and Python scripts. Consider that I have the following directory structure and files created by a…
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Git Error: The filename or extension is too long in Kate editor

I have recently switched to Kate due to Atom being discontinued. However I'm having trouble with the Git integration in Kate. I cannot seem to stage all files when I have a lot of files to stage. When I right click on modified and select "Stage All"…
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How to remove everything between two words in RegEx?

I want to remove everthing between .com/ to ?utm How can I do that? I use Notepad++ and…
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When need a single or otherwise improperly paired quotation mark, is there a way to stop Kate from turning all the subsequent code red?

I'm writing Tcl with SQlite in Kate and have a replace( ...text..., '"', '\"' ) in one of my SQL statements to escape the quotation marks. This causes Kate to turn all the code after this line red because of the unpaired quotation marks. The code…
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Kate showing no language dictionary found

I'm getting these whenever I'm accessing kate in manjaro kde, how do I solve this. I'm using konsole, zsh if it does any help.
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Regular expression mode find and replace in kate

I have huge file which compose like this: This line is wrong, because the name after the code, for example: (20000000) NAME where NAME does not recur in other line’s fragments (example 1): ;100000;(20000000) Face wash su Acai uogomis Ziaja Jagody…
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Can Kate (the text editor) display the number of times that a search term a user has entered in Find/Replace appears in a document?

Chromium, for example, displays the number of times that a search term a user has entered in Find appears on a web page. My use case is simple: when I search in Kate I would like to know how many times my search term appears in the document I am…
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non-greedy / lazy matches with KATE regex

I'm trying to find everything between two words (not going to say which two words because I don't want people screaming "you can't parse x with regexes, use an x parser instead). I have no trouble finding the start word and the end word - except…
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Kate Equivalent Of Go To File In Textmate

Is there an equivalent of Textmate's Go To File in Kate? kate is a really nice editor and this is the one functionality that would make kate all taht I need as my text editor Thanks!
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'each' highlighted by Kate in endforeach

Earlier versions of lampp had endforeach in grey in Kate; with the latest xampp version (7.3.8) 'each' is red and underlined. This is using the colon version of foreach. Has foreach/endforeach changed or is my coding faulty somewhere? I am a keen…
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i386 x86_64 architecture Assembly language no symbol error

just started out assembly programming, after compiling it with nasm and when i open the file with gdb ./myfile, (No debugging symbols found in ./sandbox (its my file name)) tried many commands from terminal objdump, nm and all, no debugging symbol…
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Configure C program in kate editor

I want to build and run C program in kate editor ,can you please help me to solve this ,i need configuration for my editor how i can do it.i didnt find any tutorial
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Can you search through variables in Kate editor

I was writing a C program in Kate and I had to modify a few lines with a variable called 'wheel'. So I used the default search functions of Kate. The problem I was having, was that the same name 'wheel' also existed in the comments. So I could not…
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How to recover loaded Kate Plugins

Dear stackoverflow users: So far I was working well with kate when I installed it in ubuntu 16.04 as sudo apt-get install kate. However, some days ago. I got the following error when launching kate: org.kde.kwindowsystem: Could not find any platform…
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