KDevelop is a IDE for C/C++ and Qt supporting cmake, qmake and custom makefiles. It also has plugins for PHP, Python, Rust, Ruby, QML/JS and Go languages.
Questions tagged [kdevelop]
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How to toggle a comment in kdevelop?
Kdevelop has separate commands for commenting (ctrl+d) and uncommenting (ctrl+shift+d).
Is there a way of using a single shortcut to toggle both?

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How to ignore symlinks or directories recursively in kdevelop?
I am using KDevelop 4.2.3 and in my project directory there are symbolic links to a large collection of test instances. I want to tell kdevelop to ignore these directories. There is the possibility to put a file named .kdev_ignore into the directory…

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How to duplicate a line in KDevelop
How can I clone a line in KDevelop? Is there any shortcut or menu item for that?

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Missing variable cmake_3_compiler kdevelop cmake
I used to use Kdevelop on Linux Mint which worked fine. Now I reinstalled Linux and I can't get Kdevelop and cmake to work.
When I compile I get this error:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
And when I try to configure…

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KDevelop4 Debugging {...} cannot be unfolded
I am debugging with KDevelop4 which is not showing Types always in its variables window and also Its showing {...} instead of unfolding the data. Is there any way to unfold ? and see types of all variables ?

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Switch between split views in Kdevelop
Kdevelop allows for split views (splitting the editor window horizontally or vertically) like known from Emacs and other editors. There are even shortcuts to create such splits (Ctrl+Shift+T, Ctrl+Shift+L), but I couldn't find any shortcut to switch…

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Which Linux distribution for VMWare Workstation Guest?
I've been fighting a whole day with UNIX utilities - so sorry if I appear confused! I'm describing my painful and (so far) fruitless process a little because maybe someone may correct me, or maybe describing the process might be helpful to someone…

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how to let KDevelop & CMake only build specific targets?
I'm using KDevelop and CMake to develop a project that includes many targets, including a few of executables and libraries and many unit-tests of them.
Every time when I start to build my project, I have to wait a long time, because KDevelop / CMake…

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Is there any sort of "Codelet Template" in KDevelop?
Everytime I need to input a piece of code such as "switch .. case" or "declaring a class", I desire a way I can rapidly achieve it by hitting a shortcut.
In many IDEs, we can do it by pressing some shortcut keys, and IDEs will paste a little piece…

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Error while starting kdevelop in Ubuntu 16.04
I am new in linux and i have installed ubuntu 16.04 64 bit on my machine. Installed kdevelop and while launching, I get the following error;
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in…

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KDevelop runs the wrong CMake
I have two CMake versions installed: one in /usr/bin/, the latest one in /opt/.
From the command line I can specify the latest version, and the C++17 code is compiled successfully.
From KDevelop, after setting the default CMake executable to…

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KDevelop parser configuration is missing header files
I am about to configure KDevelop (5.2.1) for a C++ project using CMake on Archlinux. Building my project in KDevelop as well as from the command line works but I hit several parser problems for code completion:
In the beginning my includes of C++…

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Lua syntax highlighting in KDevelop
Does anyone know how to fix the Lua syntax highlighting in Kdevelop. The # symbol used to get the length of a table causes the remainder of the line to appear as if it is commented out.
t[#t+1] = "foo"

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KDevelop does not see C++ header files
I have a C++ project built of several shared libraries. Each library source code is placed under its subtree of directories. The main CMakeList file contains a list of add_subdirectory() directives. CMakeList files in every subdirectory…

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KDevelop not executing Hello World program
I am using KDevelop 4.6.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.
At one point I saw the output of my hello world program, but now I can build it, but not execute it. That is, if I press the Execute button I am presented with a Launch Configurations dialog which gives me…

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