On Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 07:27:12 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using > "regular expressions". > > I had stated using Kate for the project. > > I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be > helpful if I could find a _single_ document that made comparison > between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart. [e.g. package goals] > > Suggestions?
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm_main_i18n_Translation-en Package: kate Description-md5: ab2572368eb6cf239ac558f6cd35a97c Description-en: powerful text editor Kate is a powerful text editor that can open multiple files simultaneously. . With a built-in terminal, syntax highlighting, and tabbed sidebar, it performs as a lightweight but capable development environment. Kate's many tools, plugins, and scripts make it highly customizable. . Kate's features include: . * Multiple saved sessions, each with numerous files * Scriptable syntax highlighting, indentation, and code-folding * Configurable templates and text snippets * Symbol viewers for C, C++, and Python * XML completion and validation Package: kwrite Description-md5: dd638fec6a6002fe9ac850e5e842392b Description-en: simple text editor KWrite is a simple text editor built on the KDE Platform. It uses the Kate editor component, so it supports powerful features such as flexible syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and numerous other text tools. Package: ktexteditor-katepart Description-md5: 3162e86e5e7045f0a5f650908df08a6f Description-en: provide advanced plain text editing services The KTextEditor interfaces - also called KTE interfaces - are a set of well-defined interfaces which an application or library can implement to provide advanced plain text editing services. Applications which utilise this interface can thus allow the user to choose which implementation of the editor component to use. The only implementation right now is the Kate Editor Component (Kate Part). . This contains the Kate Part plugin. Cheers, David.
