Kate plugins

Stefan Rödiger [GMX] stefan_roediger at gmx.de
Fri Apr 3 22:56:37 BST 2020


Maybe related. Kile has a nice selection of symbols for writing tex
documents. This might be useful for writing Rmds too. Same applies to
the LaTex commands. Does Kile use a similar approach (plugins) like kate?

On 03.04.20 15:54, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:10:32 +0200
> Stefan Rödiger [GMX] <stefan_roediger at gmx.de> wrote:
> [...]
>> For those who do not know where to find them:
> [...]
>
> yes, thanks for the instructions. You can also get there more directly
> via Settings->Configure RKWard, and then selecting the Add-ons page.
>
>> Some of them are not (yet?) supported. For example Symbol list. Maybe
>> this needs to be filtered unless there are use cases I don't know of.
> As far as I understand "Symbol list" simply supports a certain set of
> languages, and R is not among those. I suppose, in theory it could be
> useful, e.g. if users are developing an package containing C code.
>
>> I can make immediate use of:
> [...]
>
>>> - Should we have a separate category of "recommended" kate plugins
>>>   (that look useful, and are known to work reasonably well)? Should
>>> we hide kate plugins that look useless in the context of RKWard?
>> yes
> Ok, for now I've highlighted some "useful" plugins in bold. Thinking
> about it, I did not yet hide anything, so everybody can take a look.
>
>>> - For those plugins that do look useful to you, which UI quirks need
>>>   to be addressed?
>> - Document Preview is way more useful if users easily are able to open
>> other file types via the File menu. An additional entry besides Open R
>> Script File ... might do the trick.
> Good point. How would everybody feel about renaming that action to
> "Open File", with a default extentions filter for R script files that
> can also be changed to any file.
>
> BTW: Did you find any time for the snippets? Even if it's not
> "complete", I think it would really be helpful to provide a small
> selection for a start.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
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