Bug 455413

Summary: modern unicode formatting--bold, italic, underline--for text editing
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: David Chmelik <dchmelik>
Component: kwriteAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: christoph, waqar.17a
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 22.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description David Chmelik 2022-06-16 14:23:48 UTC
SUMMARY
After unicode added bold, italic, underline text standards for fonts, more plaintext programs started adding those, including Internet Relay Chat (IRC) which predates most word-processors, but even some IRC programs now make it easy, so text editors should certainly catch up!

Describe the solution you'd like
Add quick/normal keystrokes/menus to start/end bold, italic, underlined text.
(I now also use other word-processor features plaintext, such as numbered & bulleted lists, but not asking for such yet, and there's probably much more others might like but I don't care about.)
(I don't just use text editors for programming, but viewing/editing posts/articles, short/novella stories, viewing and in the past modifying a book, editing book-length websites, etc.)

EXPECTED RESULT
Text editors should become more like word processors a little if/when possible, starting with most simple, common aspects.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Slackware64 15 stable to 15.1-current GNU/Linux / 5.25.0
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0
Qt Version: 5.15.4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Waqar Ahmed 2024-09-28 09:04:55 UTC
Sorry, this is out of scope for us. We are intentionally a plain text editor and will remain so.