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Blu256: Blu256 moved page Kate (KDE3 Architecture) to Kate: Simplify

2022-04-21T16:14:28Z

Blu256 moved page Kate (KDE3 Architecture) to Kate: Simplify

Blu256: Various improvements

2022-04-21T16:14:14Z

Various improvements

Rhk: Wordsmithing

2022-04-18T13:35:47Z

Wordsmithing

Rhk: Added reference to the folding (like collapsible outlining) feature.

2022-04-18T13:34:12Z

Added reference to the folding (like collapsible outlining) feature.

Blu256: Updated

2021-08-22T21:39:46Z

Updated

imported>Eliddell: Created page with "== Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor == Somewhere in the history of computing, there was a point where computers were no more than glorified typewriters (that's how Big Blue..."

2014-06-11T23:21:32Z

Created page with "== Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor == Somewhere in the history of computing, there was a point where computers were no more than glorified typewriters (that's how Big Blue..."

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== Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor ==

Somewhere in the history of computing, there was a point where computers were
no more than glorified typewriters (that's how Big Blue earned the "Big", in
the end :-)

Anyways, more seriously, editing texts is one of the tasks computers are
most often bound to accomplish. Programmers find important to enhance their
usual editors in ways which simplify the coding work. Sometimes the amount
of enhancements brought us sacred monsters like Emacs :-).

Respecting one of its own initial goals (provide most useful tools with the
basic installation), KDE provides Kate, '''K'''DE's '''A'''dvanced '''T'''ext '''E'''ditor.
Many programmers will find this editor very useful for coding thanks to the
following features:

*support for languages like: C, C++, Objective-C, IDL, Java, Modula2, Ada, Bash, Perl, Python, HTML, LaTeX and ''many'' more!
*colored syntax highlighting (and completely customizable)
*smart indenting
*very advanced text selection mechanisms: persistent selection, multiple selections, block selections
*complete customization of keybindings
*text bookmarking
*support for all possible end-line styles: DOS, MacOS, Unix
*infinite undo/redo and a handy browser of undo/redo actions.

Of course, Kate can be very well used as an ordinary editor. If we can call
it ordinary :-). To this respect, Kate provides:

*a "Normal" syntax colorisation style
*spell checking (with support for multiple language dictionaries, if installed)
*list of recently edited files

Kate uses the editor component ''Kate Part'' which is also used in KDevelop,
the Integrated Development Environment of KDE.

Thanks to the marvels of Object Oriented Programming principles that KDE
uses extensively by the means of the C++ language, Kate is programmed in
quite a modular manner. Thus, adding a colored syntax highlighting for a
new language isn't a complicated endeavour. Further information can also be
found on the official [http://kate.kde.org Kate homepage].

[[Category:KDE3]]
[[Category:Architecture]]
[[Category:Developers]]

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+'''Kate''' is the advanced text editor that is included with Trinity. The name is an acronym which stands for '''K'''ate is an '''A'''dvanced '''T'''ext '''E'''ditor<sup id="note-1-origin">[[#note-1|1]]</sup>.
-[[Category:KDE3]]
-[[Category:Architecture]]
-[[Category:Developers]]
-{{Applicable to TDE}}
-== Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor ==
+== Description ==
 Somewhere in the history of computing, there was a point where computers were
 no more than glorified typewriters (that's how Big Blue earned the "Big", in
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 of enhancements brought us sacred monsters like Emacs :-).
+== Features ==
 Respecting one of its own initial goals (provide most useful tools with the
-basic installation), KDE provides Kate, '''K'''DE's '''A'''dvanced '''T'''ext '''E'''ditor.
+basic installation), Trinity provides Kate, an advanced text editor which many
-Many programmers will find this editor very useful for coding thanks to the
+programmers and users alike will (hopefully) find very useful for coding thanks
-following features:
+to the following features:
 *support for languages like: C, C++, Objective-C, IDL, Java, Modula2, Ada, Bash, Perl, Python, HTML, LaTeX and ''many'' more!
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 quite a modular manner. Thus, adding a colored syntax highlighting for a
 new language isn't a complicated endeavour.
+==Notes==
+<span id="note-1">
+*  [[#note-1-origin|^]] In KDE it stands for '''K'''DE's '''A'''dvanced '''T'''ext '''E'''ditor.
+</span>
+[[Category:KDE3]]
+[[Category:Architecture]]
+[[Category:Developers]]

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 *support for languages like: C, C++, Objective-C, IDL, Java, Modula2, Ada, Bash, Perl, Python, HTML, LaTeX and ''many'' more!
 *colored syntax highlighting (and completely customizable)
-*folding -- I don't mean line wrapping, although it has that, I mean folding like what Microsoft calls "collapsible outlining" (at least in older versions of Word) -- the ability to collapse (hide) portions of text to allow things like easier navigation and easier writing in a more hierarchical fashion
+*folding -- I don't mean line wrapping, although Kate / Kwrite have that, I mean folding like what Microsoft calls "collapsible outlining" (at least in older versions of Word) -- the ability to collapse (hide) portions of text to allow things like easier navigation and easier writing in a more hierarchical fashion
 *smart indenting
 *very advanced text selection mechanisms: persistent selection, multiple selections, block selections

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+[[Category:KDE3]]
+[[Category:Architecture]]
+[[Category:Developers]]
+{{Applicable to TDE}}
 == Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor ==
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 *support for all possible end-line styles: DOS, MacOS, Unix
 *infinite undo/redo and a handy browser of undo/redo actions.
+Trinity continues maintaining the KDE 3.x version of Kate.
 Of course, Kate can be very well used as an ordinary editor. If we can call
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 *list of recently edited files
-Kate uses the editor component ''Kate Part'' which is also used in KDevelop,
+Kate uses the editor component ''Kate Part'' which is also used in TDevelop,
-the Integrated Development Environment of KDE.
+the Integrated Development Environment of Trinity.
-Thanks to the marvels of Object Oriented Programming principles that KDE
+Thanks to the marvels of Object Oriented Programming principles that Trinity
 uses extensively by the means of the C++ language, Kate is programmed in
 quite a modular manner. Thus, adding a colored syntax highlighting for a
-new language isn't a complicated endeavour. Further information can also be
+new language isn't a complicated endeavour.
-found on the official [http://kate.kde.org Kate homepage].
-[[Category:KDE3]]
-[[Category:Architecture]]
-[[Category:Developers]]