Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

[Richard Troy]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>>  The following, however, showed what you need to muck with:
>>
>>  $ ls -A ~/.* | grep -i kate
>>
>>  Presuming all that shows up is exclusively kate-the-editor related and not
>>  something else (NOT a safe bet), you could remove all of it and it should
>>  be as if you never had run it.
>> 
>
> I get:
>>  katemetainfos
>>  katepartrc
>>  katerc
>>  kateschemarc
>>  katesyntaxhighlightingrc
>>  katevirc
>
> That all looks "safe" to remove.
> Am I correct?
>

Some advice from a professional system administrator on some system or 
another since 1978 to present:

A good practice all system administrators who are short on time should 
follow is: Develop a standard naming methodology for yourself - a 
convention - and make a directory, for instance here perhaps 
.kate_removed, and then move the potentially offending files aside into 
this repository.

Presumably, the next time you launch Kate it'll build up a new set. You 
can then compare the new and old and perhaps learn something, and maybe 
even find where the change was that caused you this pain.

It's quick, easy, and if you removed something you shouldn't have, it's 
quickly reversible.


Regards,
Richard


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