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Dear Sirs and Madames...

less formal: HI,

I've got a hopefully compelling idea what to add to KATE and all other editor programmes like KATE.

Let me assume that I want to write a LONG manuscript, of an upcoming book. And I have some difficulties with some certain 10 Finger blind combinations e.g.: I don't want to write certain wording combinations and I don't want to have an extra long check after the writing process.

In fact I'd like to have a "running "find/replaces" process which ereases immediately all my unwanted written combinations.

Microsoft did that, but in a completely "UNPLEASANT" Way (at least for me).

That would save a not too short amount of time...
Adjust before (perhaps in Nepomuk tags), what you don't want to write down, and have that correct before the text has been finished.

Conclusion: Plea for a Krunner (find/replace) service on Text documents.

Thanks and bye, from Germany
Andreas P.

Editor-Component/KWrite/Kate/KDevelop are not used for manuscripts but for source code, why would I want to have such replacements?
(It should not be too complicate to write a KTextEditor-plugin, you can do that...)

PS:
Scribus has nothing to do with Kate etc.

This seems like an excellent candidate for KWord, the word processor; however the Kate editor component, the text/code editor, should focus more on predicting what you want then reinterpreting what you wrote.

airdrik wrote:This seems like an excellent candidate for KWord, the word processor; however the Kate editor component, the text/code editor, should focus more on predicting what you want then reinterpreting what you wrote.

Yeah, that would fit in as well. Explaining the things which led to my brainstorm post. At University I have to a programming course. We are given lots of stuff by PDF (Acrobat Distiller) Documents. And lots of code is organized in boxes. When I wanted to copy that into my used IDE, all the time (when code is in boxes) I got plenty of special character errors, but the real bad stuff is: all Text! not only comments are in spaced type! Noticing that, I was forced to think about find/replace with a certain amount of speed, and those "spaces errors" are occurring predictable. So the thought of an automatic Replacement was coming. And my (very bad) experiences with Microsoft Office....

To conclude that: It could provide a very useful approach to organize text in real time as you write, perhaps something that could work out with maths as well. And yes KATE in most parts is not that smart idea for that. But I needed syntax highlighting...

Feel free to quote that quote...

I think this is the sort of thing that belongs in a full-fledged IDE like kdevelop, not in a text editor like kate.