[kde-doc-english] [kate] doc/kate: move all content from mdi.docbook into fundamentals.docbook

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Mon May 27 20:27:52 UTC 2013


Git commit 59b98d5f217a6035a6e4883ef1c7dd216c0159ac by T.C. Hollingsworth.
Committed on 27/05/2013 at 21:50.
Pushed by hollingsworth into branch 'master'.

move all content from mdi.docbook into fundamentals.docbook

M  +178  -0    doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
M  +0    -3    doc/kate/index.docbook
D  +0    -183  doc/kate/mdi.docbook

http://commits.kde.org/kate/59b98d5f217a6035a6e4883ef1c7dd216c0159ac

diff --git a/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook b/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
index 252ab2c..78bd042 100644
--- a/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
+++ b/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
@@ -510,6 +510,184 @@ characters at the beginning of each new line with comments.</para></entry>
 
 </sect1>
 
+<sect1 id="kate-mdi">
+<title>Working With the &kate; <acronym>MDI</acronym></title>
+
+<sect2 id="kate-mdi-overview">
+<title>Overview</title>
+
+<para>Window, View, Document, Frame, Editor... What are they all in
+the terminology of &kate;, and how do you get the most out of it? This
+chapter will explain all of that, and even more.</para>
+
+<sect3 id="kate-mdi-overview-mainwindow">
+
+<title>The Main Window</title>
+
+<para><indexterm><primary>Main window</primary></indexterm>
+The &kate; Main Window is a standard &kde; application window,
+with the addition of side bars containing tool views. It has a
+menubar with all the common menus, and some more, and a toolbar
+providing access to commonly used commands.</para>
+
+<para>The most important part of the window is the editing area, by
+default displaying a single text editor component, in which you can
+work with your documents.</para>
+
+<para>The docking capabilities of the window is used for the tool
+windows:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><link linkend="kate-mdi-tools-file-list">The Documents List</link></para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><link linkend="kate-application-plugin-fsbrowser">The Filesystem
+Browser</link></para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><link linkend="kate-mdi-tools-konsole">The Built in Terminal Emulator</link></para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>And possibly other tool views, for example provided by
+plugins.</para>
+
+<para>Tool views can be positioned in any sidebar, to move a tool right click
+its sidebar button and select from the &RMB; menu</para>
+
+<para>A tool view can be marked as <emphasis>persistent</emphasis> in the &RMB;
+menu for its sidebar button. The sidebar can contain
+more tools at one time so that when a tool is persistant other tools can be
+shown simultaneously.</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="kate-mdi-editor">
+
+<title>The Editor area</title>
+
+<para><indexterm><primary>Editing Area</primary></indexterm>
+&kate; is capable of having more than one document open at the
+same time, and also of splitting the editing area into any number of
+frames, similar to how for example &konqueror; or the popular
+<application>emacs</application> text editor works. This way you can
+view several documents at the same time, or more instances of the same
+document, handy for example if your document contains definitions in
+the top that you want to see often for reference. Or you could view a
+program source header in one frame, while editing the implementation
+file in another.</para>
+
+<para>When a document is available in more than one editor, changes
+made in one editor will immediately be reflected in the others as
+well. This includes changing the text as well as selecting
+text. Search operations or cursor movement is only reflected in the
+current editor.</para>
+
+<para>It is currently not possible to have more instances of the same
+document open in the sense that one instance will be edited while the
+other will not.</para>
+
+<para>When splitting an editor into two frames, it is divided into two
+equally sized frames, both displaying the current document of that
+editor. The new frame will be at the bottom (in the case of a
+horizontal split) or at the right (for a vertical split). The new
+frame gets the focus, which is visualized by the blinking cursor bar in the
+focused frame.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="kate-mdi-tools-file-list">
+<title>The Documents List</title>
+
+<para><indexterm><primary>Documents list</primary></indexterm>
+The documents list displays a list of all documents currently open in
+&kate;. Modified files will have a small <guiicon>floppy
+disk</guiicon> icon on their left to indicate that state.</para>
+
+<para>By default, the Documents list appears in
+<guimenuitem>Tree Mode</guimenuitem>, which displays the folder structure
+surrounding all currently open documents. Also available is
+<guimenuitem>List Mode</guimenuitem>, which displays a simple list of all
+open documents. You can switch modes by right-clicking on the list and selecting
+from the <guisubmenu>View Mode</guisubmenu> menu.</para>
+
+<para>If two or more files with the same name (located in different
+folders) are open in <guimenuitem>List Mode</guimenuitem>, the names of the second will be prepended
+<quote>(2)</quote> and so on. The tool-tip for the file will
+display its full name including the path, allowing you to choose the
+desired one.</para> <para>To display a document in the currently
+active frame, click the document name in the list.</para>
+
+<!-- FIXME missing options in 4.11 context menu:
+Close
+Copy Filename -> full doc path to clipboard
+Open With submenu
+-->
+<para>You can sort the list in a few different ways by rightclicking the
+list and selecting from the <guisubmenu>Sort By</guisubmenu> menu.
+
+The options are
+<variablelist>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term><guimenuitem>Opening Order</guimenuitem></term>
+<listitem><para>Lists the documents in the order of opening</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term><guimenuitem>Document Name</guimenuitem></term>
+<listitem><para>Lists the documents alphabetically by their name.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term><guimenuitem>Document Path</guimenuitem></term>
+<listitem><para>Lists the documents alphabetically by the path to them.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>The document list will per default visualize your history by shading the
+entries for the most recent documents with a background color. If the document
+was edited, an extra color is blended in. The most recent document has the
+strongest color, so that you can easily find the documents you are working on.
+This feature can be disabled in the
+<link linkend="config-dialog-treeview">Documents</link> page
+of the configuration dialog.</para>
+<!-- Tree View was renamed to Documents - http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-08-28/ -->
+<para>The default location of the document list in the &kate; window is to the left of the
+editing area.</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<!-- command line + Terminal-->
+
+<sect2 id="kate-mdi-tools-konsole">
+<title>The Built in Terminal Emulator</title>
+
+<para><indexterm><primary>Terminal emulator</primary></indexterm>
+The built in Terminal Emulator is a copy of the &kde; &konsole;
+terminal application, for your convenience. It is available from the
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Tools Views</guisubmenu>
+<guimenuitem>Show Terminal</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu item and will get the focus
+whenever displayed. Additionally, if the <link
+linkend="config-dialog-general-sync-konsole">Automatically synchronize
+the terminal with the current document when possible</link> option is enabled, it will
+change into the directory of the current document if
+possible when it is displayed, or when the current document
+changes.</para>
+
+<para>The default location in the &kate; window is at the bottom,
+below the editing area.</para>
+
+<para>You can configure the &konsole; using its &RMB; menu, for more
+information, see the <ulink url="help:/konsole/index.htm">&konsole; manual</ulink>.</para>
+
+<para>The built-in terminal emulator is provided by the Terminal Tool View plugin,
+which is enabled by default.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
 <sect1 id="fundamentals-using-sessions">
 <title>Using Sessions</title>
 
diff --git a/doc/kate/index.docbook b/doc/kate/index.docbook
index 993a022..4cea47e 100644
--- a/doc/kate/index.docbook
+++ b/doc/kate/index.docbook
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
   <!ENTITY highlighting-appendix SYSTEM "highlighting.docbook">
   <!ENTITY advanced-chapter SYSTEM "advanced.docbook">
   <!ENTITY fundamentals-chapter SYSTEM "fundamentals.docbook">
-  <!ENTITY mdi-chapter SYSTEM "mdi.docbook">
   <!ENTITY menu-chapter SYSTEM "menus.docbook">
   <!ENTITY part-chapter SYSTEM "part.docbook">
   <!ENTITY plugins-chapter SYSTEM "plugins.docbook">
@@ -117,8 +116,6 @@ configuration files.  This document was written in &kate;.
 
 &fundamentals-chapter;
 
-&mdi-chapter;
-
 &part-chapter;
 
 &plugins-chapter;
diff --git a/doc/kate/mdi.docbook b/doc/kate/mdi.docbook
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f05fa7..0000000
--- a/doc/kate/mdi.docbook
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-<chapter id="kate-mdi">
-<chapterinfo>
-<authorgroup>
-<author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author>
-<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
-</authorgroup>
-</chapterinfo>
-<title>Working With the &kate; <acronym>MDI</acronym></title>
-
-<sect1 id="kate-mdi-overview">
-<title>Overview</title>
-
-<para>Window, View, Document, Frame, Editor... What are they all in
-the terminology of &kate;, and how do you get the most out of it? This
-chapter will explain all of that, and even more.</para>
-
-<sect2 id="kate-mdi-overview-mainwindow">
-
-<title>The Main Window</title>
-
-<para><indexterm><primary>Main window</primary></indexterm>
-The &kate; Main Window is a standard &kde; application window,
-with the addition of side bars containing tool views. It has a
-menubar with all the common menus, and some more, and a toolbar
-providing access to commonly used commands.</para>
-
-<para>The most important part of the window is the editing area, by
-default displaying a single text editor component, in which you can
-work with your documents.</para>
-
-<para>The docking capabilities of the window is used for the tool
-windows:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para><link linkend="kate-mdi-tools-file-list">The Documents List</link></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para><link linkend="kate-application-plugin-fsbrowser">The Filesystem
-Browser</link></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para><link linkend="kate-mdi-tools-konsole">The Built in Terminal Emulator</link></para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>And possibly other tool views, for example provided by
-plugins.</para>
-
-<para>Tool views can be positioned in any sidebar, to move a tool right click
-its sidebar button and select from the &RMB; menu</para>
-
-<para>A tool view can be marked as <emphasis>persistent</emphasis> in the &RMB;
-menu for its sidebar button. The sidebar can contain
-more tools at one time so that when a tool is persistant other tools can be
-shown simultaneously.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="kate-mdi-editor">
-
-<title>The Editor area</title>
-
-<para><indexterm><primary>Editing Area</primary></indexterm>
-&kate; is capable of having more than one document open at the
-same time, and also of splitting the editing area into any number of
-frames, similar to how for example &konqueror; or the popular
-<application>emacs</application> text editor works. This way you can
-view several documents at the same time, or more instances of the same
-document, handy for example if your document contains definitions in
-the top that you want to see often for reference. Or you could view a
-program source header in one frame, while editing the implementation
-file in another.</para>
-
-<para>When a document is available in more than one editor, changes
-made in one editor will immediately be reflected in the others as
-well. This includes changing the text as well as selecting
-text. Search operations or cursor movement is only reflected in the
-current editor.</para>
-
-<para>It is currently not possible to have more instances of the same
-document open in the sense that one instance will be edited while the
-other will not.</para>
-
-<para>When splitting an editor into two frames, it is divided into two
-equally sized frames, both displaying the current document of that
-editor. The new frame will be at the bottom (in the case of a
-horizontal split) or at the right (for a vertical split). The new
-frame gets the focus, which is visualized by the blinking cursor bar in the
-focused frame.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="kate-mdi-tools-file-list">
-<title>The Documents List</title>
-
-<para><indexterm><primary>Documents list</primary></indexterm>
-The documents list displays a list of all documents currently open in
-&kate;. Modified files will have a small <guiicon>floppy
-disk</guiicon> icon on their left to indicate that state.</para>
-
-<para>By default, the Documents list appears in
-<guimenuitem>Tree Mode</guimenuitem>, which displays the folder structure
-surrounding all currently open documents. Also available is
-<guimenuitem>List Mode</guimenuitem>, which displays a simple list of all
-open documents. You can switch modes by right-clicking on the list and selecting
-from the <guisubmenu>View Mode</guisubmenu> menu.</para>
-
-<para>If two or more files with the same name (located in different
-folders) are open in <guimenuitem>List Mode</guimenuitem>, the names of the second will be prepended
-<quote>(2)</quote> and so on. The tool-tip for the file will
-display its full name including the path, allowing you to choose the
-desired one.</para> <para>To display a document in the currently
-active frame, click the document name in the list.</para>
-
-<!-- FIXME missing options in 4.11 context menu:
-Close
-Copy Filename -> full doc path to clipboard
-Open With submenu
--->
-<para>You can sort the list in a few different ways by rightclicking the
-list and selecting from the <guisubmenu>Sort By</guisubmenu> menu.
-
-The options are
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><guimenuitem>Opening Order</guimenuitem></term>
-<listitem><para>Lists the documents in the order of opening</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><guimenuitem>Document Name</guimenuitem></term>
-<listitem><para>Lists the documents alphabetically by their name.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><guimenuitem>Document Path</guimenuitem></term>
-<listitem><para>Lists the documents alphabetically by the path to them.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</para>
-
-<para>The document list will per default visualize your history by shading the
-entries for the most recent documents with a background color. If the document
-was edited, an extra color is blended in. The most recent document has the
-strongest color, so that you can easily find the documents you are working on.
-This feature can be disabled in the
-<link linkend="config-dialog-treeview">Documents</link> page
-of the configuration dialog.</para>
-<!-- Tree View was renamed to Documents - http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-08-28/ -->
-<para>The default location of the document list in the &kate; window is to the left of the
-editing area.</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<!-- command line + Terminal-->
-
-<sect1 id="kate-mdi-tools-konsole">
-<title>The Built in Terminal Emulator</title>
-
-<para><indexterm><primary>Terminal emulator</primary></indexterm>
-The built in Terminal Emulator is a copy of the &kde; &konsole;
-terminal application, for your convenience. It is available from the
-<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Tools Views</guisubmenu>
-<guimenuitem>Show Terminal</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu item and will get the focus
-whenever displayed. Additionally, if the <link
-linkend="config-dialog-general-sync-konsole">Automatically synchronize
-the terminal with the current document when possible</link> option is enabled, it will
-change into the directory of the current document if
-possible when it is displayed, or when the current document
-changes.</para>
-
-<para>The default location in the &kate; window is at the bottom,
-below the editing area.</para>
-
-<para>You can configure the &konsole; using its &RMB; menu, for more
-information, see the <ulink url="help:/konsole/index.htm">&konsole; manual</ulink>.</para>
-
-<para>The built-in terminal emulator is provided by the Terminal Tool View plugin,
-which is enabled by default.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>


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