Hi, I'm sorry to post this message after such a long absence. I wanted to start working again on the multi-cursor but I'm unable to redo a fresh build from a fresh installation. Last time, it took me several days before I had a successful build of ktexteditor and kate. But this time I can't do it anymore.

The procedure described here doesn't work at all out-of-the-box, there are lots of packages to add, possibly CMakeLists.txt to modify, etc ... : https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development

What is the recommended operating system? What is the recommended setup for at least a successful kdesrc-build ktexteditor and kdesrc-build kate?

In advance thank you very much.

As I understand (and what I tried), you can check out the whole KDE tree via kdesrc-build; then you hack on the part you need, rebuild and reinstall. This feature would be awesome, btw. Hope it lands one day.

szutmael wrote:What is the recommended operating system? What is the recommended setup for at least a successful kdesrc-build ktexteditor and kdesrc-build kate?

For some reason I missed it previously. Anyway... I don't think that you need anything fancy setup for ktexteditor and kate. I have just a KDE Neon Devel edition installed in a VM and there after installing the build dependencies for kate and ktexteditor (should be something like

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apt build-dep kate

) I can work by just checking out the git repos. I can even debug these in CLion.

I'm using Kate 21.12.1 on Slackware 15.0. I just reinstalled Slackware. I can't get multi-cursor to work. I tried in an existing file that was open in Kate as well as starting a new file in Kate and using any combination of keys, such as CTL-ALT or ALT-click. They do nothing to create multiple cursors. What am I missing?

It's such a lovely feature and it's such a shame it never made its way down to a mainline.
But there's a bit of good news here - https://kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022- ... lticursor/