Re: [opensuse] kde and the kate editor [SOLVED]

Wendell Nichols wrote:
Kate drives me nuts. Its a good editor but every time you right click
to edit a file in konqueror using kate it starts a new window. If I use
a command window and specify --use it will "reuse" an existing window if
one is started for the session I specify. However because kdeinit
starts it I cannot pass a parm through konqueror.
So I get 30 kate windows on my desktop when all I want is one. Ideally
I'd like kate to open the file I've chosen in the instance of kate which
is already open ON THAT DESKTOP.

Has anyone figured this out?
Sorry if this is an inappropriate forum... well not all that sorry....
wcn

Forwarded from Anders Lund kate development:

You can have Kate reuse an instance by adding "-u" (or "--use" to the
command line. For usage from within KDE, for example konqueror, edit the
properties for the Kate application.

You can read more in the online help (help:/kate) and at Kates website
at www.kate-editor.org

---- Added by me -----

In kde, just open menu editor, select kate and add --use to the command
line after "kate %U". The command line will read: "kate %U --use"

Works like a charm!

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