An active Kate user group?

[Richard Owlett]

On 12/3/24 3:16 AM, Duncan wrote:
> Richard Owlett posted on Sun, 1 Dec 2024 05:52:43 -0600 as excerpted:
> 
>> In an effort to have a suitable HTML format James James Bible I
>> discovered Kate. I've experimented with manually editing individual
>> chapters and found Kate particularly. Solving some OS issues has allowed
>> me to update to Kate 22.12.3 .
>>
>> As there are ~1k chapters I'm going to explore macros. [had contact with
>> TECO in 70's so I've an idea of what I'm getting into ;]
>>
>> I've gotten answers here to my specific questions, but I'm looking for
>> an active Kate focused user group whose discussion would stimulate
>> thought.
> 
> Here's what a quick browse turned up here, assuming you hadn't found it
> yet:
> 
> https://kate-editor.org

Yes, I've been there. Don't consider it user-friendly. JavaScript 
required to display site navigation menu. Due to vision and perception 
problems I surf with JavaScript disabled. That I had visited 
https://kate-editor.org/support/ back in July indicates I recognized the 
problem.

> 
> ... Seems to have a kate developer blog, and (under more, get help)
> mentions a kwrite-devel list. (Yes the list name says devel but the page
> says for users too. 

At that time I looked at 3 months of history - very low volume and only 
non developers were expert users. Looked at intervening history and 
found only one newbie question - it got no response :{

> FWIW kwrite is the somewhat simpler single-document-
> interface version of the multi-document-interface kate -- they share
> plugins/tools/etc and at least with the older versions I used in the past

The description in the Debian repository was attractive - just installed 
it. I may be in its target audience. It will at least give me more 
perspective.

> (I prefer the script-and-macro-extensible TUI-based mc/midnight-commander/
> mcedit, these days) work similarly when working on a single document, but
> kwrite's GUI is simpler because it doesn't have the options to manage
> multiple documents at the same time.)
> 
> There's also the #kate IRC channel if you're into such. (I'm not!)

Nor I ;}

> 
> (FWIW my discovery path was...
> kde.org > top-menu develop button >
> develop.kde.org > top KDE developer platform section >
> Develop (tools and libraries) >
> developer.kde.org/develop/ > Kate button >
> kate-editor.org )
> 

Thank you.