It would be great if Kate has multiline editing support. See following animation to see how it works in Sublime Text: http://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/4/5/195054-sublime-text-2-8657438886813069773.gif How I think it should work: 1) Select a couple of positions where to do the edit 2) any editing change should be applied to all contexts (writing, deleting, pasting, etc.) Reproducible: Always
It works now in block-selection mode in KDE 4.12, but it's not exactly the same as your request: http://kate-editor.org/2013/09/09/multi-line-text-editing-in-kate/
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