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How to open multiple files into the same Kate session?

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
When I'm coding I can have 50+ files open at once that I move around in. In Windows I was able to select a group of files, hit enter and they all open up new tabs in Notepad++. With Kate (or any app it seems) they all open new instances of the app. Is there a way around this?
 
When I hit enter the text gets cut, not that I ever do that :^D

Curious why you picked Kate. Did that bring in a bunch of KDE dependencies? I don't do a lot of text work, but I'd handle it by spawning a new tab, and pasting the cut text into that. You may be able to do what you want with scripting. Try tackling it from that angle. I don't use Kate, but it has a section in the extension configuration settings for scripts.

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You could also use something like Emacs or Vim. The learning curve can be steep, especially with Emacs, but you can do just about anything you'd possibly like with those.

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Doesn't Gedit have tabs?

Last time I used Kate it had one redeeming factor and that was selecting text in columns instead of rows. I think they might have lost that feature that at some version. What is it with KDE apps and losing features?
 
serp said:
Doesn't Gedit have tabs?

Last time I used Kate it had one redeeming factor and that was selecting text in columns instead of rows. I think they might have lost that feature that at some version. What is it with KDE apps and losing features?
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You think KDE's losing features, you should check out what Gnome's doing. they're completely gutting it. The only thing left when they finish will be the About Gnome screen :^D

Gedit has tabs, but I don't know if it'll do what squirrel wants. Honestly, I'd have a hard time recommending anything from the Gnome desktop. If it has a valuable feature today, it could be gone tomorrow. It's a shame. It went from being my favorite DE to a slow motion train wreck :^/
 
Kate has sorta tabs, but they're on the side. It came with the distro so I just used it. I tried other editors and it seemed to be the one I liked most. I tried to use code blocks which is actually for C++ but found it clunky for the way I code, I tend to code on one system and compile on another, so I don't need all it's features.

I did realize that if I right click on the selection of files and choose to open with default app it does open in new tabs. For some reason the first time I tried that it opened in separate sessions. With enter it seems to only open one of the files, but if I can do it with right click, guess that's good enough.
 
Glad you got it sorted out - I've used Kate for several years as my primary programming editor. I love the session feature - it would open the current 10-15 files that I was working with during the last programming session. Needed to setup up a script to launch it though, to null bucket all the stdio and stderr messages on launch.
 
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