How to Navigate in Kate? 1 keystroke, many blank lines

[Snowhog]

installing Gedit on many computers becomes a make work project.

Maybe so, but if Kate won't do what you want/need, spending time trying to get it to do so is just as much a "make work project". Sometimes you just have to accept the inevitable and move on.

[ShadYoung]

installing Gedit on one computer is possible.
installing Gedit on many computers becomes a make work project.


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How much time will be saved using Gedit vs Kate if Kate is slower for user workflow by 3 strokes to 1 or more? The work you put in now may save orders of magnitude other work later when added up over time. If its your company, I am sure time is an important factor for you. If you are a tech or admin and only building the machines... well... come on... step up; don't be lazy. And you or your client may find that there are other limitations with Kate that might prove problematic if you or their users are used to a certain way of doing things that will force you back to install it later anyway, which costs more time and money. Besides, you can automate the install or do a network deploy. No need for it to be hard.

I am not trying to push you to use Gedit. I use Kate myself and am a bit of a KDE purist too. But, it does not seem to make sense forcing a change when its really not necessary, and rather simple to get what you/they need.

[joseph22]

How much time will be saved
using Gedit vs Kate if Kate is slower for
user workflow by 3 strokes to 1 or more?

Did Gedit tests and Gedit required
more work,
more keystrokes,
more mouse movement
to do everyday task versus Kate.

Gedit is better for 1 task, hence the question,
but Gedit is worse in other tasks versus Kate.

The task Gedit is better at is:
Ctrl-Right Arrow = move Right to next word with many blank lines between words, in 1 keystroke.
Ctrl-Left Arrow = move Left to next word with many blank lines between words, in 1 keystroke.



Question:
How to submit a request to Kate programmer?
What is the Link? web page

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[claydoh]

How to submit a request to Kate programmer?

You can best contact the vilunteer development team by subitting a feature request (as a bug report) on bugs.kde.org or via mailing list discussion.

https://kate-editor.org/support/

Probably the mailing would be the first place to go to.

[ShadYoung]

Gedit is better for 1 task, hence the question, but Gedit is worse in other tasks versus Kate.

Ah. Gotcha. Well, overall, I would say this is only a minor problem then. I would simply remap the goto shortcut in that case.