kate

Doxygen style comments in Kate

Kate features a very handy shortcut (Ctrl+D) to apply single- and multi-line comment to the selected region of text. How can I configure Kate to apply doxygen style comments in C/C++ source files? /** * reduces the channel complexity * args: None * returns: None */ void Channel::reduce(); ...

Switching focus between editor and terminal in Kate

When working in Unix with various programming languages I often use Kate as my primary editor. It has a really nice function of being able to open a built-in terminal window which is quite useful. The problem is that switching back and forth to the terminal view using a mouse is quite a pain and I can't find any shortcuts for this. Th...

How to select column in editors(Notepad++ , kate , vim , Netbeans , Eclips ,other editor)

How to select column in editors(Notepad++, Kate, vim, Netbeans, Eclipse, ...) ? for delete or insert or replace some characters. ...

Using Kate with Simple Build Tool (SBT)

Hello I am working with the Kate editor based on the lack of other good tools for Scala development, I am also using IntelliJ however it still has some bugs, and are slow enough to make me impatient. I have just startet using both Kate and SBT, and in that regard I have a little challenge I hope there is an answer for out there on "The...

page separator in Kate editor

PEP 8 says: Python accepts the control-L (i.e. ^L) form feed character as whitespace; Many tools treat these characters as page separators, so you may use them to separate pages of related sections of your file This look like a great idea for me, but in the text editor I use(kate) "control+L" is for save all files. Someon...

How do you use kate? Tips/Tricks/Workflow

We all seen a bunch of these? Mostly for IDE's but also for vim and emacs. Kate is (only) a text editor (an awesome one) but it has a ton of options plus a number of plugins, so its hard to know all of it well. How do use the Kate text editor? Please share your workflow and help me and others learn some of the cool tricks you use. I'll...

In search of a good and customisable IDE, Is eclipse is the ultimate one?

I am using GNU/Linux (Ubuntu + Gnome). I have been using netbeans on windows since a long time and on Linux I prefer to use vi or emacs. Now my problem is I want to totally migrate into Linux for all my development works but i have seen that netbeans do not has that appealing look as it used to have on windows. Same with eclipse. I kno...

Javadoc integration with kate

I had been using netbeans for sometime now but I am trying out kate these days & loving it due to its configurable command line tools. :) However what I miss desperately is a code complete window with the javadocs in it as we get in netbeans- that way I dont have to remember any of the apis. Is there some plugin for kate (Java and/or C...