https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447151
Bug ID: 447151
Summary: add ability to temporarily blur/blackout/hide a line
in Kate
Product: kate
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: stevemcqu...@mailinator.com
Target Milestone: ---
A very minor, perhaps silly, feature request: It would be nice to have a button
or keyboard shortcut to temporarily blur/blackout/hide individual lines in an
open file.
Imagine you have some file open with the following (obviously hypothetical)
code:
host="example.com"
username="bob"
password="1234"
connect(host, username, password)
And suppose you are sharing your screen with someone, either remotely or
shoulder surfing. That password line is obviously something sensitive you'd
rather not share, but otherwise you'd like them to see the rest of the code.
Rather than editing the file to replace it with 'XXX', and then having to
remember to un-edit, it would be a neat feature to hit some keyboard shortcut
or button and temporarily blur, hide, or blackout that line (or even an
individual highlighted selection). The file remains unchanged. And after the
screen share is over, you hit the button/shortcut again and the line is once
more revealed.
In my head this would work slightly similar to how the bookmark shortcut works,
in that you hit Ctrl+B, and the line gets highlighted. Only instead of
highlighting, it's hidden.
And the goal wouldn't be any sort of super security, just a visual feature.
Kind of like how a browser hides your password with asterisks.
Again, just a "wouldn't that be nice" idea.
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