Bug 143778

Version:           2.5.6 (using KDE 3.5.6 "release 48.1" , openSUSE )
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.20.2-ccj47-desktop

Sounds like a feature wish but it isn't: If I have a lot of files open and thus cannot visually keep track of a file's loading status, I open it again from the quick file pane - just to continue fast with my work. The bug is that kate does not focus a document which may already be open but instead opens a new instance of it. This is very annoying because if I continue working on the file later and do not choose the freshest "instance" and apply changes to an older version and overwrite changes I made to the other instance I opened before. Kate even does not notice this when I close kate and effectivly throws away work. :-(

Kate should open/show documents only once in the document list. Or it should keep track of changes in every opened instance so I cannot accidently overwrite my latest loaded copy of a document (kate doesn't notice that the file was changed).

This at least applies to files loaded via SFTP oder FISH, as I usually work remote files when opening more that one file at once.

To not get it wrong: By "instance" here I mean opened multiple document instances within _one_ kate session, not multiple kate sessions. And I know that kate usually does not notify about changes in remote files - so it should really be fixed that kate does only allow one single document instance per session. So I consider it a bug and not a feature wish.

So the file open function should look if the specific file is already loaded and then focus it instead of loading another seperate copy. I love kate for its features and speed and I just don't want to kill that gain by endlessly searching thru the document pane if eventually I already opened that file in a big session.