Spotlight: Kate Scripting

"Hey ho everyone.

"Dominik asked me to blog about a feature in Kate that is still (sadly!) pretty unknown and seldom used: Kate Scripting. As you should know you can script KatePart completely via JavaScript. As those articles explain, it's rather simple to write functions and put them into a file to have them reusable. But what for those write-use-throwaway kind of cases, where you simply need to get a job done quickly and don't want to go through the overhead of writing some full fledged, documented, action-binded, localized script?

"Utility Functions and why JavaScript rocks

"Note: Neither map nor filter will be shipped with 4.5 to my knowledge, sorry about that. But you can still use the each helper (see below) to achieve the same with a bit more typing..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Linuxables: Meet Kate, the KDE Text Editor(Jul 27, 2010)
• Kate Puts Other Text Editors to Shame(Feb 25, 2010)
• Using Kate As a Web Editor(Nov 16, 2009)
• Getting Started With the Kate Text Editor: Kate For Coders(Apr 02, 2009)
• 14 Most Popular Text Editors for Linux(Apr 01, 2009)
• Getting Started With Kate, the Friendly yet Powerful Text Editor(Feb 09, 2009)