Kate and Phil
Posted 02-09-2012 at 04:51 PM by trevorparsons
Updated 02-09-2012 at 05:32 PM by trevorparsons (Clarity)
Updated 02-09-2012 at 05:32 PM by trevorparsons (Clarity)
Tags debian, kate, phil hands
I use KDE's Kate editor a lot. Recently, it has complained about opening some of my messy HTML files, giving the following slightly opaque error message:
I searched for a portion of this text using Startpage and found just one result, in a post to the kde-commits list, pertaining to bug 234475.
Well, I've not yet experienced such hangs when opening files, so I threw caution to the wind and, in Configure Kate > Open/Save, I increased the Line Limit Length from 1024 to 2048.
Now my file opens and is writeable.
For some reason this brought to mind the time a few years ago when the estimable Phil Hands decided he was selling himself short and doubled his day rate from £512 to £1024. Let me see what he's charging nowadays...
Well, Phil's a reasonable guy. In these straitened times, he has held his price, more or less. He now charges in guineas (maybe he always did and I forgot). So that's 1024 times 21 shillings (or £1.05 in the new money), making £1075 and four shillings (£1075.20). Plus VAT.
As far as I know, no 'hang opening file' bug has yet been filed on Phil, which is good, because we want the co-sponsor and maintainer of the UK Debian mirror to be reasonably stable.
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The file [whatever] was opened and contained too long lines (more than 1,024 characters). Too long lines were wrapped and the document is set to read-only mode, as saving will modify its content.
Well, I've not yet experienced such hangs when opening files, so I threw caution to the wind and, in Configure Kate > Open/Save, I increased the Line Limit Length from 1024 to 2048.
Now my file opens and is writeable.
For some reason this brought to mind the time a few years ago when the estimable Phil Hands decided he was selling himself short and doubled his day rate from £512 to £1024. Let me see what he's charging nowadays...
Well, Phil's a reasonable guy. In these straitened times, he has held his price, more or less. He now charges in guineas (maybe he always did and I forgot). So that's 1024 times 21 shillings (or £1.05 in the new money), making £1075 and four shillings (£1075.20). Plus VAT.
As far as I know, no 'hang opening file' bug has yet been filed on Phil, which is good, because we want the co-sponsor and maintainer of the UK Debian mirror to be reasonably stable.
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Hi,
I just stumbled over the exact same reason. Kate 3.7.97, KDE 4.8, Kubuntu 11.10
I wanted to edit a .tex file. But after increasing the limit in Settings -> Save/Load to 2048 and later to even 100'000 it still wouldn't let me edit the file. The longest line I could spot in the file is just below 2000 characters. I only got the error message once, now it just opens R/O without any comment.
I feel very strange about this limitation. It would be far more sensible to issue a warning but open for editing anyway, and then on save ask again if lines should be broken (optionally!).
Any hint how to open my file for editing with Kate?Posted 03-06-2012 at 05:22 AM by mogliii 
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No idea how to get around the .tex file problem, sorry mogliii.
Your suggestions for warning dialogs sound sensible.Posted 03-24-2012 at 08:13 PM by trevorparsons
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I also found that the file was still Read Only even after extending the limit.
If I renamed the file and opened it with the new limit then I could edit it. It seems that once Kate has marked a particular file "read only" it keeps it that way.
To edit the file under its original name, edit the file (but not using Kate!) ~/.kde/share/apps/kate/metainfos. Search the file for the affected file name's metadata and change "ReadWrite=false" to "ReadWrite=true".
If you have saved the file in a session then also make the cahnge to the file under the sessions directory.Posted 05-15-2012 at 05:09 AM by simonb
Updated 05-15-2012 at 05:20 AM by simonb
