Friday, September 18, 2009

News from the Holy Kate Land

Since we now all know that Kate is holy (thanks to rms. By accident, he obviously confused Kate with emacs, though) let's have a look at what's going on. In the last months Kate development is quite active, so here is a quick update:
  • new: on-the-fly spell checking thanks to Michel Ludwig. Highlights include e.g. spell checking in comments of source code or latex parts. Also, constructs like sch\"on work in latex.
  • extended scripting support in the command line, more on that later
  • more and more mature vi input mode
  • lots of bug fixing. quite impressive bug squashing by Pascal Létourneau for more than 4 months now
  • lots of refactoring and code cleanups thanks to Bernhard!
  • "Find in Files" appears by default again in the tool view,
  • "File Browser" uses UrlNavigator, huge code cleanup
  • convenience updates of syntax highlighting
  • delayed highlighting of code folding ranges to prevent flickering on mouse move
  • new command line commands: 'toggle-header' in the Open Header plugin. 'grep' and 'find-in-files'
  • haskell and lilypond indenter
  • much, much more, see commits for details.
Thanks to all contributors involved in Kate development. Keep it up :)