Difference between Kate, KWrite and KEdit

[Shriramana Sharma]

I have Kate, KWrite and KEdit. I use only Kate, but I am at a loss to
understand why meaningless duplicates of Kate named KWrite and KEdit exist.

Please tell me -- are there any serious functional differences between Kate,
KWrite and KEdit to justify there being different applications?

Thank you.

[Thomas Kear]

I don't know about kedit, but kwrite is kate, minus the session
management, so where kate can load multiple files in one window,
kwrite loads one. also means kwrite loads a lot faster


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[Jes Hall]

Post by Shriramana Sharma
I have Kate, KWrite and KEdit. I use only Kate, but I am at a loss to
understand why meaningless duplicates of Kate named KWrite and KEdit exist.
Please tell me -- are there any serious functional differences between
Kate, KWrite and KEdit to justify there being different applications?

Kate is a very featureful programmers tool. Kwrite is actually the Kate editor
widget in a more stripped down, simplified form. They are the same program
fundamentally, with a different user interface. KEdit still exists because as
far as I'm aware it is the only editor of the three that supports
bidirectional text, for langauges that write right-to-left. It's also part of
the kdeaddons package if I recall correctly. If you are worried about how
many similar applications you have installed I'd suggest not installing every
single acessories and add-ons package available :)

Regards,

Jes Hall
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[Sylviane et Perry White]

Post by Shriramana Sharma
I have Kate, KWrite and KEdit. I use only Kate, but I am at a loss to
understand why meaningless duplicates of Kate named KWrite and KEdit exist.

I can open many documents in Kate but cannot open two instances of Kate,
If I want to compare 2 documents by displaying them side by side I will open
both KWrite and Kate, or 2 instances of KWrite,

Perry
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[Tony Bloomfield]

Post by Sylviane et Perry White

Post by Shriramana Sharma
I have Kate, KWrite and KEdit. I use only Kate, but I am at a loss to
understand why meaningless duplicates of Kate named KWrite and KEdit exist.

I can open many documents in Kate but cannot open two instances of Kate,
If I want to compare 2 documents by displaying them side by side I will
open both KWrite and Kate, or 2 instances of KWrite,

I do this in Kate by Window/Split vertically then opening the second file in
the right-hand pane. Do you find your method more advantageous?

[Sylviane et Perry White]

Post by Tony Bloomfield

Post by Sylviane et Perry White
I can open many documents in Kate but cannot open two instances of Kate,
If I want to compare 2 documents by displaying them side by side I will
open both KWrite and Kate, or 2 instances of KWrite,

I do this in Kate by Window/Split vertically then opening the second file
in the right-hand pane. Do you find your method more advantageous?

Sometimes seing only the beginning of the lines is enough for me, so I can use
big windows with partial overlap and not have to deal with linewrapping.
Also I may deal with different revisions of files, they have the same name but
reside in different folders... so using different programs to display them
helps me remember which is which.

It is also not true you cannot oppen 2 Kate windows, AFAIK it is possible from
Kate but not directly from Konqueror.

Cheers Perry
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