New to this forum.... decades use of traditional vi (not vim) and for some time a user of gedit, notepad++ and notepadqq.
I needed a different editor in this class that would provide much better printed output and additionally a syntax-highlighter for Windows Scripting Host (WSH) to be used on Ubuntu. After some research I decided to try Kate. I am running Ubuntu 14 LTS 64b and its repo offered me Kate 3.13.3.

Q1. I see a lot of syntax-highlighters but not something that might work for Windows Scripting Host. Any suggestions?

Q2. I am perplexed why there is no Print-Preview. I heavily use this from my editors. Am I missing something whereby I must configure it to appear? How do I get this feature?

Q3. I have been using ISO date/time formats for a VERY long time. A key reason to switch to Kate was that there were header/footer features in printing. Strangely, there is no complete documentation for the fields anywhere... bizarre really. So I tried all %a thru %z, %A thru %Z, and %1 thru %9 with the hope I would find this international date/time presentation STANDARD or fundamental % fields where I could construct it. Again, very strange this is missing and it appears to me there is NO way to construct it with % fields. Why is this? Is there some place to request a way to formulate date and time components, likely with new % fields, to create standard date and time formats?

thanks
oldunixguy