Questions tagged [kwrite]
Use this tag for questions related to the KWrite editor, a lightweight text editor by KDE.
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Where is Kwrite's edit menu option "toggle comment"?
I use Kwrite for looking at code. Sometimes I want to test the result of removing a line and Kwrite had a very useful menu option : "Toggle comment" (before there were 2 lines in that menu, &...
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How to set keyboard shortcut to insert a timestamp (time & date) in KWrite?
KWrite is included as the default text editor in several popular Linux distros (such as Fedora KDE). Inserting a timestamp is a basic feature of text editors. How can one set a keyboard shortcut to ...
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Kate/Kwrite editor drag/drop/copy functionality gone
Somehow I've lost some functionality in Kate and Kwrite which I've employed frequently. In the past, as recently as a couple hours ago, I could select some text and drag-and-drop it elsewhere. If the ...
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How to switch text direction to rtl & ltr in kate and kwrite
How can I switch the text direction in kate and kwrite editors? I have English & Persian layouts and want to read the Persian text as right to left but I can't seem to be able to switch the ...
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grep equivalent of the kwrite regex [A-Z][A-Z]+
So, it took me ages, but I finally learned to think in terms of regular expressions, thanks to using them in kwrite. But I still don't know how to translate that knowledge to grep. I love my grep, ...
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python regex equivalent of kwrite [ ]+ and [0-9]+
I've never been good at regular expressions. When ever I read about them, I sort of get a headache, get up from my desk, and forget what I'm doing. Attention difficulties. But when I finally started ...
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Match one part of a regular expression in a Kwrite find-and-replace regex
Among the joys of KDE, Kwrite is surely noteworthy. Having regular expression support built in by default into text editor is probably one of the top 10 best ideas of all time. Since I often need to ...
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