Hi there
At work we are using Nedit (http://www.nedit.org/) text editor. The main reason for that is its ability to open a text file which path is given in opened text.
For example if we have this part of text

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.include "/directory/textfile.cpp"

then selecting /directory/textfile.cpp text from that document and then pressing CNTRL+Y key combination we will open textfile.cpp document in a new tab.
This is a very helpful feature especially when you always have to open those documents, look inside and change them...

So my question is this: Is it possible to do the same thing in Kate text editor?

Thanks

I don't think it exists right now, but you can probably easily write a python plugin or something, or even hack a 3-line shellscript with the dbus interface.

Greetings,
Sven

well im not a python programmer,,,

Then you can of course also write the feature in C++

Or submit a wish on bugs.kde.org.

heheee,,, it is easy to say ahahahha yes i do program on c++ but i never participated in big projects like this,,,

let see what others will say...
thank you very much for your reply

Well.... according to Kate mailing list http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwrite-devel&r=1&w=2 where i've sent the same question all we have to do is this: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwrite-devel&m=139276606403545&w=2 (BIG THANKS TO Philipp A)

whit some fixes (replacing commentary.py with source and changing the error message 'File {0} doesn't exist in {1}.' to "File {0} does not exist in {1}.") i've got this

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from PyKDE4.kdecore import  KUrl
import kate

@kate.action(text='Open selected', shortcut='Ctrl+Y', menu='Edit', icon='document-open')
def open_this():
    source = kate.activeView().selectionText()
    direc = kate.QtCore.QDir(kate.activeDocument().url().directory())

    if direc.exists(source):
        url = KUrl(direc.filePath(source))
        kate.mainInterfaceWindow().openUrl(url)
    else:
   kate.gui.popup("File {0} does not exist in {1}.".format(source, direc.absolutePath()), 3)

this is a python file with any name you like in the directory ~/.kde4/share/apps/kate/pate/
NOTE you have to enable python plugins (see pictures below)

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It works nice,,, hope to see this kind of functionality built-in
Thank you very much

Nice, thanks for sharing the solution you found!