Is there a way to enable tabs in kwrite?

You should use Kate instead, which is a more powerful equivalent to KWrite (they share quite a bit of their implementations)

bcooksley wrote:You should use Kate instead, which is a more powerful equivalent to KWrite (they share quite a bit of their implementations)

How do I enable tabs in kate?

Why should I use Kate? I am not doing anything complicated. I just like tabs. Almost every simple text editor that I can think of except notepad has tabs.

Whilst Kate doesn't have tabs, if you enable the Documents sidebar, a list of open documents can be shown.

bcooksley wrote:Whilst Kate doesn't have tabs, if you enable the Documents sidebar, a list of open documents can be shown.

What about the second part?

Why should I use Kate? I am not doing anything complicated. I just like tabs. Almost every simple text editor that I can think of except notepad has tabs.

you should use kate because it has tabs, if you want a kde texteditor with tabs it's your only choice for a kde app, you of course can run a tabbed non-kde text editor if you wish

if you don't want complicated just don't use the added functionalities available in kate, some of which like find in file, terminal & file system browser are pretty useful

personally I agree both kedit and kwrite should have tabs but they don't, if you want to add a wish on bugs.kde.org you can

finally you can try using KDE's window tabbing to encapsulate multiple instances of kwrite for a tabbed affect http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl ... ng&spell=1

google01103 wrote:you should use kate because it has tabs, if you want a kde texteditor with tabs it's your only choice for a kde app, you of course can run a tabbed non-kde text editor if you wish

if you don't want complicated just don't use the added functionalities available in kate, some of which like find in file, terminal & file system browser are pretty useful

personally I agree both kedit and kwrite should have tabs but they don't, if you want to add a wish on bugs.kde.org you can

finally you can try using KDE's window tabbing to encapsulate multiple instances of kwrite for a tabbed affect http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl ... ng&spell=1

Ok. Thx for explaining that to me .

There were tabs in kde3 kate. In each tab I could split the view however I
wanted and the tabs were not associated with a document. I could have a tab
split horizontally with file a and b and in the second tab I could have it
split vertically with files b and c. If I edited file b in any of the tabs, it
updated the file in all of the views.
there would be too many tabs with more then 10 documents opened.the tabs were NOT associated with a document,rather a view. Thus if you have enough space you could open as many tabs as you wanted.

If this feature was available in kde3's kate why can't it be in kde4's kate? In
kde 3 I went to the toolbar and added the create tab button and that was all I
needed.

I know there is a tab bar plugin, but that is NOT what I am looking for. Each
tab should be associated with a view not document.This really effects my work flow. I could remedy this by opening multiple kate instances, but that's not even allowed.

You can do all of that split view stuff in Konqueror (viewing the files with the Kate kpart).

I'm pretty sure that Kate went through a rework (if not a rewrite) with the switch to KDE4, and as such they would have examined each feature to see if it was worth keeping, and this would have been one feature that wasn't worth keeping.

Why not let the window manager handle the tabbing? Open as many kwrite windows as you like and have kwin tab them together. I forget if it's the default to allow middle-click-drag to allow manual tabbing, but you can do this from the context menu (right-click) on the titlebar, too.

kwrite and kate both use the same editor kpart. Kate is designed for cases where you have multiple sessions, each having many text files you need to edit. To this end, it has various plugins and gizmos. kwrite is a simple version of kate. It's designed to open quickly (and it usually opens faster than kate, though just barely perceptibly) and edit one file at a time. No plugins, no gizmos.