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…”

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