Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Kate Version 3.3.0 Using KDE 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0) "release 155" openSuSE 11.0 The kate "configure kate -> general -> kate warn about files modified by a foreign process" is broken. This must have just happened. It is really broken. For example if I have a snippet from a log file open and active in kate (meaning it's the document you are looking at) and you modify the file from the command line, kate no longer warns that it has been modified. For example, the log snippet open in kate (named smberror) needed lines containing the word "MARK" deleted, and since kate can't delete lines, I used the command line: sed -e '/MARK/d' < smberror > tmpf; cp tmpf smberror ; rm tmpf I then went back to kate expecting the normal file modification message and got nothing. I switched to another doc and then back to the file "smberror" and still no warning. It wasn't until I manually said "Reload File" that the changes were brought in. So I tested again with: echo "testline" >> smberror Still nothing -- something broke in the last update...
Another new problem with this is that if you change file permissions on the file open in kate from the command line, then save in kate, the file permissions are changed back to the file permissions when the file was opened in kate. Here I'm working in kate on host "alchemy" editing a file via sftp on host "supersff". The file being edited was a script. I checked the file permissions from the command line, changed them to 0754, then saved the file with kate and the permission were changed back to 0644. This should never happen. 00:45 supersff:~/scripts/file> l total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 564 2009-08-22 01:00 fdup-archpkg 01:00 supersff:~/scripts/file> chmod 0754 fdup-archpkg 01:00 supersff:~/scripts/file> l total 28 -rwxr-xr-- 1 david david 564 2009-08-22 01:00 fdup-archpkg <the save in kate occurred here> 01:00 supersff:~/scripts/file> l total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 571 2009-08-22 01:00 fdup-archpkg kate never warned that the permissions had been changed (you used to be able to configure whether it would for permissions in kde3). But, regardless, it changed the permissions back after I changed them from the command line.
currently kate just shows an icon in the document list. In the general settings notification can be enabled, but the dialog only appears if the main window loses and regains focus. I'm working on displaying the dialog, even if the main window does not lose focus
This still happens in Version 3.4.1 Using KDE Development Platform 4.4.1 (KDE 4.4.1) I edit files over fish:// a lot but kate doen't pick up if someone vi's the file on the remote server. I tried to leave focus and come back but it still didn't pop up a warning.
*** Bug 193048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 176893 ***