[dolphin] [Bug 501062] New: FR: Text Editor Panel

[stellarpower]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501062

            Bug ID: 501062
           Summary: FR: Text Editor Panel
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: stellarpower at googlemail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

The dolphin terminal panel is a absolute Godsend. It speeds up my workflow
enormously. It is also possible to preview a text file in the Information
panel. 

What I think would be really nice, is a panel offering a minimal text editor in
the same way. Usually, if I am in dolphin, I open those files in Kate. I often
have many windows open, and sometimes this interrupts workflows a bit. For
making small edits to several files in a folder for example, it'd be much
quicker to be able to edit and save files in-place within my (already open)
Dolphin window, rather than selecting those files, opening them with Kate,
finding them amongst all the other files I have open, saving them, and closing
back down and going back to Dolphin.

Arguably Kate offers this in reverse - I can open a folder in Kate and achieve
things like this. But it'd be nice to have the option. If I'm currently in
Dolphin, I'd like to be able to edit and save text files within Dolphin, rather
than have had to open this folder in Kate already. This kind of thing comes up
when I am mostly browsing and managing files, not necessarily expecting having
expected to need to edit them, but eventually I find out that I do. Managing
things under /etc feels a good example. I am going fishing amongst multiple
folders for system defaults, things I may or may not have tuned already, and
now to paste a single line from firefox into a config file, it'd be much
quicker to be able to do so without needing to open a separate editor.


I expect a fully-fledged text editor panel offering functionality similar to
Kate would probably be too cluttering. I think something like a KTextEditor, or
whatever appropriate widget, would be more than enough, with basic menus/action
buttons for save, save as, copy,paste, etc. and then maybe an "open in
Kate/other editor" option that would bring up a more complete editor, and
ideally communicate unsaved changes with that so that I can resume where I left
off if my edits  turn out to be more complicated. But would be more than happy
with a basic editor panel.

Thanks!


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