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.
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.
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
Closing this, nobody steps up to maintain external tools, removed from git. For scripts, people should focus on the maintained Paté Python plugin.
Work in progress on this one by Dominik Haumann https://phabricator.kde.org/D17971
The External Tools plugin was now merged into Kate again and will be available with the next application release: 19.12.
Blog with details: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-09-21-external-tools-plugin/