Trying to use break point in Kate Text Editor

[Stuart Elliott]

Good afternoon all,

As the subject states, I am trying to debug a small terminal C program 
and am having trouble using Kate's gdb plugin.

Settings.

Debugger gdb is installed in /usr/bin.

The gdb plugin is shown as selected in Kate's Settings/Configure 
Kate/Plugins dialog.

"Show Debug View" is shown as selected in Kate's View/Tool Views/ drop 
down list.

In the Setting tab of the Debug view :-

(a) Executable: is set to the file to be debugged;

(b) Working Directory: is set to the directory that contains the file to 
be debugged;

(c) Arguments: is set to -ggdb;

(d) Redirect IO is selected and an IO tab is shown.


Problem(s)

When I try to set a break point, nothing appears in Kate's text entry 
area to indicate that a break point has been set or its location. Also, 
when I select Debug/Start Debugging, there is no visual indication that 
the system has recognized my input/selection. For example, the cursor in 
Kate's text entry area does not scroll to a(n invisible) break point and 
then pause, as happens in IDEs

How do I set up Kate such that it :-

(a) presents a visual indication of a break point ?

(b) gives a visual indication that debugging has actually started ?


As I am not subscribed to the kwrite-dev at kde.org mailing list, could you 
please "CC" me in any answer that can be found.

Stuart