[utilities/kate] doc/kate: Add docs for quickopen

Christoph Cullmann null at kde.org
Thu Oct 6 14:57:22 BST 2022


Git commit 18236eb4b739a899ffe7815a865dedf082bac949 by Christoph Cullmann, on behalf of Waqar Ahmed.
Committed on 06/10/2022 at 13:57.
Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'.

Add docs for quickopen

Quick open docs from the project plugin are removed.

M  +59   -0    doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
M  +0    -25   doc/kate/plugins.docbook
M  +-    --    doc/kate/project-quickopen.png

https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/commit/18236eb4b739a899ffe7815a865dedf082bac949

diff --git a/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook b/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
index e3999a3f0..62cf0c639 100644
--- a/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
+++ b/doc/kate/fundamentals.docbook
@@ -517,6 +517,65 @@ if nothing else is indicated on the command line.</para>
 
 </sect1>
 
+<sect1 id="fundamentals-quick-open">
+<title>Quick Open</title>
+
+<para>To be able to quickly open/switch between files, Kate comes with a built-in quick open
+dialog. You can open it with <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>O</keycap></keycombo>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Quick open can show all open documents in Kate as well as all files in open projects. To
+be able to see project files, you need to enable <link linkend="kate-application-plugin-projects">Project Plugin</link>.
+</para>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Using Quick Open</title>
+
+<para>
+Using quick open is very simple. Once you open it, just type the name or portions of the name of the file
+you want to open and quick open will filter the list based on what you typed. Hitting &Enter; opens the selected file,
+while &Esc; hides the quick open.
+</para>
+<para>
+By default, only the file name is matched while filtering. If you want to match path, you need
+to have a "/" in the typed text. For example: "doc/index" will match all the files that contain
+"index" inside the folder "doc".
+</para>
+<para>
+The documents which are already open are highlighted in bold and are listed at the top when the dialog
+opens. Also, when quick open shows up the previous open document is already selected so you can just
+press &Enter; and it will take you to that document.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Configuring Quick Open</title>
+<screenshot id="screenshot-project-quickopen">
+<screeninfo>Quick Open</screeninfo>
+<mediaobject>
+<imageobject><imagedata fileref="project-quickopen.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
+</mediaobject>
+</screenshot>
+<para>
+Quick open provides a couple of config options. To access these options, right-click in the input line edit.
+</para>
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term>Currently available options are:</term>
+<listitem>
+<para><userinput>Current Project</userinput> - Show files from current project only</para>
+<para><userinput>All Projects</userinput> - Show files from all open projects</para>
+<para><userinput>Fuzzy Filtering</userinput> - Use fuzzy matching algorithm to filter files</para>
+<para><userinput>Wildcard Filtering</userinput>- Use wildcard matching to filter files</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
 <sect1 id="fundamentals-getting-help">
 
 <title>Getting Help</title>
diff --git a/doc/kate/plugins.docbook b/doc/kate/plugins.docbook
index c828b4948..b03998268 100644
--- a/doc/kate/plugins.docbook
+++ b/doc/kate/plugins.docbook
@@ -1956,31 +1956,6 @@ exits, so the plugin does not pollute any folder with unwanted files.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
-<sect2 id="project-quickopen">
-<title>Quick Opening Files</title>
-
-<para>As clicking on files in the tree view is not the fastest way to open a file, &kate;
-provides a built-in quick open mechanism you can activate with
-<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;&Alt;<keycap>O</keycap></keycombo>.
-What you the get is a list like this:</para>
-
-<screenshot id="screenshot-project-quickopen">
-<screeninfo>Quick Open</screeninfo>
-<mediaobject>
-<imageobject><imagedata fileref="project-quickopen.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
-</mediaobject>
-</screenshot>
-
-<para>You can filter by typing parts of the file name you are looking for, and you can
-also navigate with the arrow keys and page up/down through the list.
-Hitting &Enter; activates the selected file, while &Esc; hides the quick open view again.</para>
-
-<para>Further, the quick open remembers the previous file. So when you change to the
-quick open view the previously activated file is automatically selected and you just
-need to hit &Enter;, which comes very handy at times.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
 <sect2 id="project-build">
 <title>Support for Building the Project</title>
 
diff --git a/doc/kate/project-quickopen.png b/doc/kate/project-quickopen.png
index ad5057840..aa234b13e 100644
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