Bug 408907

Summary:	Open all files in a directory when executed from command line
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Baltasar <baltasarq>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.samirh78, miso, waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	19.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	21.04
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Baltasar 2019-06-19 13:03:21 UTC

SUMMARY:
You cannot open a folder from command line.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Navigate using Konsole or whatever to the foler holding the files you want to open.
2. Type "kate . &"
3. Kate complains about that the file is not a normal file, but a folder.

OBSERVED RESULT
Kate complains about that the file is not a normal file, but a folder, refusing to open anything. The terminal plugin terminal changes to that folder, though.

EXPECTED RESULT
Kate should open all files inside that folder, the ones of the recognized extensions, or maybe the ones with Mime type text.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro x86_64
KDE Plasma Version: 5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0
Qt Version: 5.12.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I can think of two options:
1. Since Kate recognizes that file as a directory, go and scan it for text files, then open them.
2. There is no "-d" option in the command line. Use it as in "kate -d . &" for opening a directory.

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2019-06-20 12:43:55 UTC

IMHO, it's out of kate's scope to probe the contents of a directory and open the ones it recognises as text files, whereas the user can simply use `kate dir_path/*.xyz` to open whatever files he wants or just dir_path/* to open all the files in said directory, if he knows the dir only contains text files...

Comment 2 Baltasar 2019-06-20 13:14:42 UTC

> IMHO, it's out of kate's scope to probe the contents of a directory and open the ones it recognises as text files, whereas the user can simply use `kate dir_path/*.xyz` to open whatever files he wants or just dir_path/* to open all the files in said directory, if he knows the dir only contains text files...

Well, Atom does it, as well as other recent text editors (such as Notepadqq, though this time from an explicit option in the GUI). The same argument could be applied to them.

Comment 3 Michal Hlavac 2020-08-28 13:07:58 UTC

Out of scope? This is killer feature for every good editor or IDE. VS Code, Atom, Idea, etc. all these editors support this and it really helps. Kate is good editor with fast startup, contains directory browser, so why do you think that this is out of scope?

Comment 4 Waqar Ahmed 2021-03-12 20:38:26 UTC

Fixed with https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/336