[Solved] Kate -> Open recent document

[Fintan]

When will kate grace us with the "open recent document" choice again.
It has been missing for a while, or am I missing something here

[Rog131]

Re: Kate -> Open recent document

(With the KDE 4.3)

Have you tried ? Kate > Settings > Configure kate > Sessions: Load last used session & Save session

Then, here, the kate remembers the recent documents when starting a new empty session.

[img width=400 height=292]http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3633/kateremembers.png[/img].

The kate doesn't remember recent documents when clicking a document and opening a session.

[Fintan]

Re: Kate -> Open recent document

Ah I knew I was missing something :P


Edit:
Kate in kde4.4 doesn't have:
Sessions: Save session

[Rog131]

Re: Kate -> Open recent document

(KDE 4.3 & KDE 4.4)


man kate

NAME
kate - Advanced text editor for KDE

SYNOPSIS
kate [-s, --start name] [-u, --use] [-p, --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column column] [-i, --stdin]
[KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]


OPTIONS
-s, --start name
Start Kate with a given session.

With a named session the kate can remember the recent documents.


KDE 4.3 (Karmic)

K menu editor - Utilities > Kate

Default Command: kate %U
Changing to: kate -s Cate %U


KDE 4.4 (Lucid)

K menu editor - Utilities > Kate

Default Command: kate -b %U
Changing to: kate -b -s Cate %U


Now the kate is starting with the named session "Cate" and is remembering the recent documents.

[img width=400 height=285]http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6681/cate.png[/img]

[Fintan]

Re: Kate -> Open recent document

KDE 4.4 (Lucid)

K menu editor - Utilities > Kate

Default Command: kate -b %U
Changing to: kate -b -s Cate %U

Works with karmic kde4.4 as well

Thanky

[GreyGeek]

Re: [Solved] Kate -> Open recent document

Running the 64bit Lucid Lynx here. Got a call from work asking about "local view" Visual FoxPro cursors saved as tables ("lv_*"). I had them send me the prg files for the whole system.

Opened Dolphin, selected all 100+ files and chose Kate to open them. Bad move. Should have thought first about what I was doing. My panel was filled with over 100 kate icons. Opened the System Monitor, selected all of them, and sent them the "Term" signal (sig 11 - Terminate).

Started over. Opened Kate. Opened the "File open" dialog and selected all 100+ files. Kate opened all of them with ease in just one instance of Kate. Several are 3,000+ lines long. Most are under a few hundred lines. Did a global "Find" for "lv_". Saw a couple hundred listings, including line numbers. Clicked on a few to check things out. Sent them back an email listing the names of the pgm files they should check to determine the importance of each lv_ cursor.

I love Kate! 8)

[MoonRise]

Re: [Solved] Kate -> Open recent document

I agree. Kate has to be one of the best TEXT tools around. I wish I could use it on my M$ machines at work as I hate NotePad and that other one they have (name escapes me at the moment).

[Telengard]

Re: [Solved] Kate -> Open recent document

I agree. Kate has to be one of the best TEXT tools around. I wish I could use it on my M$ machines at work as I hate NotePad and that other one they have (name escapes me at the moment).

NotePad is intended only as a rudimentary editor with no frills. Its worst limitation IMHO is that it mangles Unix coded text because of the difference in line end characters.

WordPad is a much more featureful text editor on Windoze which does handle Unix coded text correctly. It is more like a mini word processor because it allows embedding of objects and fonts, although it still doesn't approach all the bells and whistles of MS Word (which is a good thing IMHO). In the oldest versions of Windoze, I think it was called WRITE.EXE.

The only reason to care about these Windoze programs is because they are included with every version of Windoze back to 3.x.

I like Emacs, but Kate really is quite good.

[tnorris]

Re: [Solved] Kate -> Open recent document

I agree. Kate has to be one of the best TEXT tools around. I wish I could use it on my M$ machines at work as I hate NotePad and that other one they have (name escapes me at the moment).

Way back when I used Windows, I used an editor called Textpad (http://www.textpad.com/). It was definitely my favorite. I loved it's regular expression search/replace. I know alot of people that swear by ultraedit as well, but I've never used it. Unfortunately, neither of them is free (as in beer or speech).

[GreyGeek]

Re: [Solved] Kate -> Open recent document

My favorite Windows text editor was PFE (Programmer's File Editor). With it I edited ascii text files that were from ten to hundreds of MEGABYTES. One was slightly over 1 GB! One thing I liked about it was that regardless of the size of the file the text appeared immediately. One did not have to wait, especially for large files, to completely load before one could work with it. It was lightening fast with search and replace.

It is no longer supported but it can be downloaded from here.

[Snowhog]

Re: Kate -> Open recent document

Rog131 has told us:

(KDE 4.3 & KDE 4.4)

With a named session the kate can remember the recent documents.


KDE 4.3 (Karmic)

K menu editor - Utilities > Kate

Default Command: kate %U
Changing to: kate -s Cate %U


KDE 4.4 (Lucid)

K menu editor - Utilities > Kate

Default Command: kate -b %U
Changing to: kate -b -s Cate %U


Now the kate is starting with the named session "Cate" and is remembering the recent documents.

I realized that creating an actual session file is not required. Now I may have misread what Rog131 showed in the screen shot, where there was a file called Cate.txt. Initially, I created this file with no content, just so it would exist. Having done so, I noticed a behavior when launching Kate that I didn't like, namely, that it opened all my previously opened files. So today, I tested an assumption, namely, that a session isn't a file at all. I changed Kates Command to:

Command: kate -s Default %U

(I have no file named Default in my ~/Documents directory)

Now when I launch Kate, it opens with the standard Untitled blank document using the session Default. File > Open Recent is active and shows the last documents I had opened.

You can use what ever name you want for the -s [session] argument. As long as the session name isn't an existing file, Kate won't, when launched, open all previously opened documents.