Bug 287644 - scripting: make it possible to execute external apps
Summary: scripting: make it possible to execute external apps
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: scripting (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2011-11-26 22:40 UTC by Jörgen Modin
Modified: 2015-10-08 09:04 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Jörgen Modin 2011-11-26 22:40:02 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                Linux

The javascript scripting in Kate does not seem to make it possible to integrate external tools such as e.g. HTML Tidy. Having a shell object, just like there are document and view objects available, would help a lot.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
Being able to integrate external tools, such as HTML Tidy and other goodies
Comment 1 Jörgen Modin 2011-11-28 16:33:50 UTC
Here is a discussion of how it is done with javascript in Mozilla:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006108
Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2015-10-08 09:04:22 UTC
Dear user,

this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it.

The Kate/KTextEditor team is very small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishs that show no activity for two years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users.

If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in two years again.

We have a nice website kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. For highlighting improvements our user manual shows how to write syntax definition files.

Greetings
Christoph