https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507106

--- Comment #15 from Sanmay <[email protected]> ---
A few points that in my opinion may be relevant here:

1. I think I may have kind of understood the reason behind differences in
KWrite's users' opinion and the dev team's opinion on this matter (correct me
if I'm wrong though). For the dev team, whether or not to implement a feature
also involves a decision with regards to 'code complexity' (which seems
substantial in this case). Whereas from user standpoint, its usually a matter
of 'usage complexity'. As an example, for users, asking for support of a
programming language, or multiple cursor support, would amount to complexity.

2. AFAIK, the extent to which 'code complexity' is taken into consideration
when deciding upon whether to implement a feature (or in this case, to fix a
bug) that balances 'usage complexity' is a matter of organization's internal
policies. So yeah, I guess its up to the KDE Org policies and the devs to
deliberate and decide.

3. One of the main reasons that users come here asking for help, and reporting
bugs is likely because KWrite is distributed in reputed distributions like
Fedora. If this is in fact an unmaintained application, I think such
distribution's communities should be made aware of this fact in good faith (or
public database be updated as may be the case as per KDE policies). This will
allow them to move on to other applications for basic text editing that support
basic features (like the feature/bugfix being discusses here). FeatherPad comes
to mind as an alternative to KWrite.

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