Bug 299248

Summary: External tools plugin is missing
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Danilo <dan.garou>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: alexander, christoph, kare.sars
Priority: VLO    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 19.12
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Danilo 2012-05-02 18:06:19 UTC 
Maybe this isn't really a bug but I would like to receive a solution.
The external tools plugin on kate 3.8.2 (Kubuntu 12.04 LTS) is missing.
How we can install it? Or, how we can run our python, shell scripts in kate and enabling a shortcut to it now?
I appreciate very much a kate update with this tool.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Settings
2.Configure kate
3.Plugins
4.External tools?
Actual Results:  
The plugin was not found.

Expected Results:  
The plugin should be on the list.

Tried to search a plugins path in ~/.kde/ but the kate folders are empty.
Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2012-05-03 07:04:43 UTC 
http://kate-editor.org/2011/08/09/maintainer-needed-kate-external-tools-plugin/

You can bind shortcuts to scripts written in java script, this is pretty powerful:
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-baseapps/kate/advanced-editing-tools-scripting.html

However, currently you can not run external applications or popup dialogs.
Comment 2 Kåre Särs 2012-05-03 12:53:20 UTC 
You can also (ab)use the build plugin :)

You can specify the working directory and the command to run. The only thing that might be a bit annoying is that when the script exits it will popup a "Build successful" or "Build failed" notification.

/Kåre
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-28 13:14:37 UTC 
Closing this, nobody steps up to maintain external tools, removed from git.
For scripts, people should focus on the maintained Paté Python plugin.
Comment 4 Alexander Zhigalin 2019-01-05 13:05:21 UTC 
Work in progress on this one by Dominik Haumann
https://phabricator.kde.org/D17971
Comment 5 Dominik Haumann 2019-09-12 08:48:34 UTC 
The External Tools plugin was now merged into Kate again and will be available with the next application release: 19.12.
Comment 6 Dominik Haumann 2019-09-21 20:44:55 UTC 
Blog with details: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-09-21-external-tools-plugin/