I am trying to extend Kate. I am trying to write a function that will allow the user to highlight some lines, enter some input and have the input prepended to each line in the selection.


I have been following some of the online tutorials, and I have created a myutils.js file with the function 'prepend' in it -

Note - this function is hardcoded to replace the selected lines with the # symbol..

function prepend()
{
//each(function(lines){return lines.sort()});
map(function(l){ return l.replace(/^/, '#'); });
}

function action(cmd)
{
var a = new Object();
if (cmd == "prepend") {
a.text = i18n("Prepend Text With");
a.icon = "";
a.category = "";
a.interactive = true;
a.shortcut = "";
}
return a;
}

It works.. but I cannot figure out how to use the interactively entered text from the command line. The function displays the command prompt to enter the text but how do I capture that text to be used in the prepend function?

I have been looking for hours, and just cannot find an answer. Every example I have found has interactive = false.

Is there another way to capture text from the user? Am I going about solving the issue in a bad way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated