Hey everybody!
If you are a KDevelop and/or Kate/Kwrite developer and do not read the mailing lists: There’s a hack sprint coming up in Berlin in 2010. I think there’ve been enough sprints in Berlin already so that you know it’s a great city for such an event. Though this time it won’t be at KDAB or Nokia offices, but at the Physics Faculty of the FU-Berlin. Since I (currently) work there as an IT admin, it was my first choice and worked out. I hope it will be a good location for the meeting. If you want to attend, vote on doodle:
http://www.doodle.com/vkyh9up9794zr4s8
But you probably also should register either on the KDevelop or KWrite mailing lists so I have some kind of way to contact you.
PS: in unrelated news I’ll do an internship at KDAB next year! yay
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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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Not only KDevelop gets better and better PHP support — the Kate PHP syntax file also got a few new features and fixes over the last weeks. The good thing is of course that all users of KWrite, Kate, Quanta, KDevelop and other editors leveraging the Katepart benefit from these changes.
Improved HereDocs
screenshot of improved highlighting in PHP heredocs
I went over PHP related bugs on bugs.kde.org today and spotted one that was fairly easy to fix:
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