Tutorial on using Kate to edit HTML?
Richard Owlett
rowlett at access.net
Sat Jul 13 14:43:04 BST 2024
I've been referred to https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/
and particularly
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/highlight.html .
They, and https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/ , go into very fine
gained detail about a plethora of tasks Kate can trivially handle.
BUT, where is the one I need?
Example 1
While browsing one of the above references, I saw a reference to using
parentheses. [can't find it now]
When at an opening parenthesis it described how to move the cursor to
the matching closing parenthesis. Interesting but not of immediate use.
However when editing an existing HTML file with <div ...> </div> pairs,
there is a blue triangular dingus to the left of the line containing the
opening <div ...>. Clicking on the dingus will hi-lite text from there
to the presumed matching </div>. What is that called? Where is it
described? Can I move the cursor there?
Example 2
The HTML files(chapters of KJV Bible) I work with can have some very
long lines. One line can run from ~1k characters (Job 25) to ~32k
characters (Psalm 119).
When manually editing those files, it would be convenient for the editor
begin each verse on a new line.
In Pluma a trivial search and replace operation. Replace all occurrences
of [ <span class="verse" ] with [ \n<span class="verse" ].
How to discover how to do it in Kate?
Note: While defining what needs to done, Kate's manual mode is
excellent. As there are ~1000 Bible chapters, I'll want to do this in a
command line script eventually.
TIA
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