Removal of KEdit

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Sat Apr 19 13:27:11 BST 2003


On Saturday 19 April 2003 06:46, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> No, and that was the reason why I never suggested to throw away KEdit ;)
> We are on the way to a better rendering infrastructure in the kate part but
> until now NO bidi is supported at all, perhaps it will be until 3.2 (that
> is a GREAT perhaps). I think Hamish has looked a bit at bidi but didn't
> feel like it would be easy doable, too. If somebody volunteers to help
> implementing it, feel free to drop KEdit, but until that problem is solved
> it should stay in my eyes.

   When it does go, you should create a wrapper for the kedit executable that 
launches the replacement instead.  It's not unreasonable that many old 
applications, shell scripts, etc still launch kedit as an editor.

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