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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    [Kwrite-devel] Re: Kate Editor
From:       Christoph Cullmann <cullmann () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-02-24 22:16:06
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On Sunday 24 February 2002 22:23, Phil Walter wrote:
> Christoph,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.  I am not sure which version I have changed,
> the README file says something like 0.2.1 at the top, and you have a
> qt3back directory in the structure.  Hopefully that will give you a clue. 
> The sources were downloaded late last week so should be reasonably up to
> date but obviously don't include the detection of the file EOL type
> detection when the file is read.  I am not sure if you were aware of the
> other problems, anyway they are fixed too.
>
> Attached is a composite 'diff' file.  I have put some comments in it as to
> what the changes were made for.  Also the modified versions are included.
>
> Keep up the good works.
Hmm, think we have such fixes in the current code base ;)
(The sources on the page weren't updated since a half year or so I guess, as 
written on the page, they are only aimed for users of pre KDE 2.2 ;)
I hope you will be happy with the new Kate shipping with the soon coming kde 
3.0.

cu & thx
Christoph

>
> Phil.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Cullmann [mailto:cullmann@babylon2k.de]
> Sent: 24 February 2002 17:15
> To: phil@eastmore.co.uk
> Subject: Re: Kate Editor
>
> On Sunday 24 February 2002 18:10, you wrote:
> > Hello Christoph,
> >
> > I am fairly new to Linux but am quickly becoming a fan.  I have recently
> > installed Mandrake Linux and been using your excellent 'Kate' editor.
>
> Well
>
> > done to you and the team for all your hard work.
> >
> > For commercial reasons I have to work in a mixed Linux/Windows
>
> environment.
>
> > Sometimes the files I want to edit are stored in Windows format and
> > sometimes Linux.  I thought it would be nice if the editor would
> > recognise the file format and default to saving in the same format.  (I
> > also see
>
> this
>
> > is one of the requests in one of the user forums).  So I downloaded the
> > sources and added this feature.  I can now load and edit both Windows and
> > Linux format files without having to worry about changing the end of line
> > format.
> >
> > In making the changes I found and fixed a couple of bugs.  There was some
> > mis-numbering of the end of line types, which showed up if you sent the
>
> end
>
> > of line type to Macintosh, closed the menu and then looked at it again -
>
> it
>
> > now showed Windows/DOS.  Second there was a bug in the backwards search.
> > It did not work properly if the current position was the beginning of the
> > line. It simply found the same text again.
> >
> > I assume you would like to know the changes I have made so they can be
> > included in future releases.  My question is in what format should I
>
> supply
>
> > the changes?  I can just provide the new files and or I can provide the
> > differences (diff output).
> >
> > Let me know the best way (and where they should be sent to) and I will
> > forward them on.
>
> Hmm, if I am not wrong I even think we have fixed that in our new version,
> but
> have nothing against your changes (send me a diff or files, like you want
> ;) You have done the changes for the version you can get from our homepage
> ? Or the one from KDE 2.2.x ? If yes, they are perhaps not very portable to
> our new version for KDE 3.0 (using qt3.0), because we have rewritten the
> most of the document/textbuffer stuff for it. But perhaps we have forgotten
> some stuff you have fixed, diffs would be nice ;) send them to me and to
> kwrite-devel@kde.org.
>
> cu and thx a lot for your work ;)
> Christoph
>
> > Regards
> > Phil.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Phil Walter
> > Eastmore Ltd.
> >
> > e-mail phil@eastmore.co.uk
> > web site www.eastmore.co.uk

-- 
| Christoph Cullmann
| Kate/KDE developer
| cullmann@kde.org
| http://www.kde.org/kate
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