Open kate, add some text. Press Ctrl-S Kate crashes (Segmentation fault (core dumped)) Sometimes all is well, but editing is NOT possible when this editor is nearly always loosing ones work... For reproduction, just open kate once, add text, try saving. If all is fine, close kate, reopen it, repeat. Second or third time it crashes definitely Reproducible: Always
Thanks for the report. Are you able to provide a backtrace of the crash? I'm using Kate all day long here without crashes and wonder what the problem is ;) What version of Kate, KDE, Fedora are you using?
It typically happens when using a new file and the dolphin dialog (should) open. Working with existing files is - as far as i can tell - ok. Added a crashreport as attachment Thanks for your help!
Created attachment 96273 [details] crash report
crash report delivered, changing status
Git commit cda58f0e256d53e66ca44b77fa7307ee670b8313 by Weng Xuetian. Committed on 20/01/2016 at 18:44. Pushed by xuetianweng into branch 'master'. remove the duplicate m_touchpadOffAtom member. m_touchpadOffAtom is already in XlibTouchpad, which makes ctor of SynapticsTouchpad initialize wrong atom. M +1 -1 kcms/touchpad/src/backends/x11/synapticstouchpad.h http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/cda58f0e256d53e66ca44b77fa7307ee670b8313
I had that crash once, too, this seems to be some now fixed error in platformintegration. Please try Kate 15.12 with some up to date frameworks, like 5.14 or so, should work their.