After I installed KDE4 (with the newest Debian) I found kedit is missing - apparently it is no longer part of KDE, but I like it for its simplicity and dislike the alternatives for various reasons, such as the insistence on syntax highlighting and "rich text". But, this is open source, so I just need to download the sources - except I don't know where I can find them. Can somebody tell me, please?

Kate should be a .deb package, if it's not there it's a packaging problem and the packager should be notified

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kate

But kate is not kedit, I believe?

my bad, it's early and I misread (Kedit - no tabs = no interest)

I checked on my openSuse install and it's not there, guess it was dropped (in 4.5.x or 4.6)

it should be available in kdebase3 if you can install that and wish to run a kde3 app

isn't kwrite and kedit pretty identical? kwrite still is available on my system, have you tried it?

Kedit is like kwrite, only without syntax highlighting (I just checked and I didn't see any quick-and-easy way to disable syntax highlighting in kwrite). I'm not sure if there were other differences.
There's a reference here: http://linuxappfinder.com/package/kedit, says that it was in the kdeutils package in KDE 3.5. You might check out Trinity's (fork of KDE 3.5) sources to see if they have it there.

Alternatively, I imagine that it would probably be pretty easy to throw together a quick-and-dirty app using Qt's plain text editor component with just open,save,and edit basics (maybe font select).

Thanks for trying to help, guys. I suppose it isn't that big a deal, and I will get used to something else. It is a shame, though, that they decide to throw out something useful all together - at least they collect the best in a "legacy package" with some or all of the old, but quite good applications.

Yes, I have tried kwrite - it isn't a bad application as such, but the syntax highlighting makes me thinks I'm high on bad acid.

If you want everything black and white, you can import the colour schema I've attached (first extract the .kateschema file with gunzip).

1. Go to Settings > Configure editor -> Fonts and colors -> Import schema
2. Enter a name for it ("kwrite - plain" for example)
3. Default schema for kwrite -> choose "kwrite - plain"

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The reason kedit doesn't exist anymore is that it was 95% same as kwrite and it didn't have a maintainer. (IIRC)

p.s. If this is sufficient, please mark the thread as solved (the green check icon below the post)

Ivan is this the same as the schema "kwrite normal" available in Kate?

No, the 'normal' one has highlighting enabled - this is all black on white.

(I did make it from the 'normal' one, but filtered through sed to remove the colours)

I see no "import schema", I see "new" but no import (running 4.6.1)

google01103 wrote:I see no "import schema", I see "new" but no import (running 4.6.1)

Maybe it is new for 4.7, have no idea.

http://imagebin.org/143320

Anyhow, I guess that the file can be saved in some special kate folder or something...

maybe but not in my 4.6.1

http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpg-0 ... ktopne2491

The file that contains the schemas (the imported ones are not in separate files unfortunately) is in .kde/config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc

Mine is attached.

Essentially, it looks like it is just a matter of
cat "filewithschema" >> .kde/config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc

(backup before doing this)