I am sure you have all heard this before, but I really hope you are thinking about making Kate more similar to TextMate, in terms of functions… I never ever thought that a texteditor would STOP me from switching entirely to Linux but right now coding Ruby on Rails in textmate is pretty darn sweet… I just had a look at scite, which does a lot of the same things — I wonder if a lot of this would be doable through the ECMAscript thing, or maybe it will have support for other kinds of scripting in KDE4?
This snippet thing seems great, but after reading this article, I am still not entirely sure how to use it. Do I have to recompile Kate first? Also, there should be support for multiple tabstops, as in
def ($1)
($2)
end
or similar.
It’s amazing the kind of community that has been built up around TextMate, despite the fact that is’s closed source. I’m not saying that we need to do everything the same, but making able the same kinds of things is really important… The Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and not least the subversion bundles are in use every two seconds when I write programs…
TextMate
I am sure you have all heard this before, but I really hope you are thinking about making Kate more similar to TextMate, in terms of functions… I never ever thought that a texteditor would STOP me from switching entirely to Linux but right now coding Ruby on Rails in textmate is pretty darn sweet… I just had a look at scite, which does a lot of the same things — I wonder if a lot of this would be doable through the ECMAscript thing, or maybe it will have support for other kinds of scripting in KDE4?
This snippet thing seems great, but after reading this article, I am still not entirely sure how to use it. Do I have to recompile Kate first? Also, there should be support for multiple tabstops, as in
def ($1) ($2) end
or similar.
It’s amazing the kind of community that has been built up around TextMate, despite the fact that is’s closed source. I’m not saying that we need to do everything the same, but making able the same kinds of things is really important… The Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and not least the subversion bundles are in use every two seconds when I write programs…
Thanks a lot for your efforts!
Stian