I'm on F24 and ran dnf update yesterday and now I can't discover what's happened to the regular expression search. Neither can I find case-sensitive search. Did I miss something? I use this constantly, every day, for work. It exists and works fine in 15.12.3 on F23 but I can't use that any more. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install kate and all the usual plug-ins 2. Open Search and Replace pane 3. Look for "Regular Expressions" and "Match case" check boxes Actual Results: "Regular Expressions" and "Match case" check boxes absent. No visible way to perform these searches. Expected Results: Should have displayed my fav search/replace tool :) The ability to use regexes and case-sensitive search, with multiple/global replace over entire dir trees and lists of files is a major part of what I do as an editor. If I were a coder I'd help fix or port or whatever. Maybe I can review a man page or something? Help?
Version 16.04.3 on Fedora 24 has this feature available. The kate packages seem to be the same, so there must be something else at play. Working versions on 16.04.3: kate-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 kate4-part-4.14.3-16.fc24.x86_64 kate-plugins-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 KDE Frameworks 5.25.0 Qt 5.6.1 (built against 5.6.1) The xcb windowing system The "broken" version16.08.1 : kate4-part-4.14.3-16.fc24.x86_64 kate-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 kate-plugins-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 Qt 5.6.1 (built against 5.6.1) The xcb windowing system
I ran this: yum downgrade kate --allowerasing Running transaction Downgrading : kate-16.04.1-1.fc24.x86_64 1/4 Downgrading : kate-plugins-16.04.1-1.fc24.x86_64 2/4 Erasing : kate-plugins-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 3/4 Erasing : kate-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 4/4 Verifying : kate-16.04.1-1.fc24.x86_64 1/4 Verifying : kate-plugins-16.04.1-1.fc24.x86_64 2/4 Verifying : kate-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 3/4 Verifying : kate-plugins-16.08.1-1.fc24.x86_64 4/4 Downgraded: kate.x86_64 16.04.1-1.fc24 kate-plugins.x86_64 16.04.1-1.fc24 Complete! I now have regex, case sensitive search, and all my faves back~! :)
Maybe there was a problem with those packages? Is it resolved?
Current packages: $ rpm -qa | grep -i kate kate4-part-4.14.3-16.fc24.x86_64 libkate-0.4.1-7.fc24.x86_64 kate-16.08.3-1.fc24.x86_64 kate-plugins-16.08.3-1.fc24.x86_64 perl-Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Kate-0.10-2.fc24.noarch The regex and case-sensitive search options now appear as buttons, not check boxes. I forgot to update the bug, sorry. But (and probably unrelated) the buttons have no labels or icons, although they do have tooltips. These and some other buttons (e.g., the button to hide the search bar) are completely invisible until you mouse over them. I found them by accident. I'm running Kate on top of gnome, so maybe there are some required packages missing?
Created attachment 104047 [details] Image of missing buttons Screen shot of where the buttons are. Visible when enabled, but otherwise completely invisible.
The buttons do have icons. I cant help on why gnome cant find them, sorry!
When I get the opportunity I'll try using KDE and see what happens. Thanks for looking.
I tried this on several different desktops/window managers (Gnome, Gnome Classic, xfce) and it only works when I use the KDE desktop. Then I see the icons. In all other cases the buttons are invisible when off.
I think this might be a problem with iconsets. If you select Breeze or Oxygen in Gnome it probably will work there too, but this is a problem that does need a fix.
I have now added workaround icons in case the preferred ones are missing.