why do kde keeps kedit, when there is kwrite around

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Saturday, July 17th 2004, 2:09pm

just wonder:

as i never use kedit, because kwrite is the better editor, i wonder why anyone would use kedit

it cannot be because of the startup-time, as both load in less than 200ms on my machine

any idea?

what about removing kedit and making kde smaller?

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TenBaseT

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Saturday, July 17th 2004, 7:20pm

Using vi & co since fifteen years. My faforite Editor is gvim.

Don't never change a usable editor.....

Hans

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damir

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Saturday, July 17th 2004, 11:15pm

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Original von TenBaseT

Using vi & co since fifteen years. My faforite Editor is gvim.

Don't never change a usable editor.....
Hans

:-) i know what you mean: in console, using vi is more or less a reflex :-) but i got used to kwrite for php/mysql programming because the highlighting is really nice (the beautiful colors ++)

but exactly because of this dilemma, i'm wondering what is kedit for - nostalgy?

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Kenneth

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Sunday, July 18th 2004, 12:35am

In KDE I use either KWrite or vi/vim/gvim. I have no idea why KEdit is included.
In my Mandrake 10.0's KDE menu, KEdit > Simple Text Editor, KWrite > Text Editor, Kate > Advanced Text Editor.

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kde-forum

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Sunday, July 18th 2004, 1:01pm

idea behing

I think the idea behing is at the moment

(1) kedit - just an easy editor
(2) kwrite - there is coming more over us
(3) kate - THE editor for little textes...

But yeah it's stupid... but I don't like the KDE package structure too!

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anda_skoa

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Monday, July 19th 2004, 4:53pm

KEdit is needed for Bidi languages (eg.g Hebrew, Arabic) because KatePart (which is used in Kate and KWrite) currently lacks this feature.

You can remove it if you don't need to write right-to-left languages.

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damir

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Tuesday, July 20th 2004, 10:33pm

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Original von anda_skoa

KEdit is needed for Bidi languages (eg.g Hebrew, Arabic) because KatePart (which is used in Kate and KWrite) currently lacks this feature.

You can remove it if you don't need to write right-to-left languages.

Cheers,
_

so if KatePart has this support of backwards writing, then kedit will be definitely obsolete?

yes, kedit is "just an easy editor ", but kwrite is the same with more features (so if the missing features from kedit are migrated to kwrite, then we can remove kedit - Juppie :-) )

I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much. -- Carole Wallach