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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Just a quicky: I wrote a little plugin for KTextEditor which supplies you with basic error checking when you save documents. Currently only PHP (via php -l) and JavaScript (via JavaScript Lint) are supported.
Screenshots
Requirements
- usual tools for compiling C++, e.g. gcc.
- cmake
- Qt development packages, i.e. under Ubuntu:
sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev - KDE 4.2 with development packages for kdelibs and kdebase, i.e. under Ubuntu:
sudo aptitude install kdebase-dev kdebase-workspace-dev kdelibs5-dev. Note: You’ll need the experimental KDE 4.2 packages activated as of now, see for example the Kubuntu news on KDE 4.2 RC1 for hints. - proper setup of environment variables, read this techbase article for more information. the
.bashrc linked there should be enough for most people - For PHP support: a PHP executable which supports the
-l switch for linting - For JavaScript support: a JavaScript Lint executable, you could download and compile the sources for example.
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