When creating a new text document in Kate (or KDevelop), estimation of the mimetype of the document in KTextEditor::DocumentPrivate::mimeType() is only done based on content, which in many cases will fail due to missing intelligence by the mime database (e.g. Markdown content). The user though has the chance to manually select a filetype mode (from Tools/Mode menu) in case the detection fails (and I surely are not the only one to do that). And usually they select a matching mode. So in the case that there is only one mimetype covered by a filetype mode, it would be helpful to have the mimetype of the document being overruled by the filetype mode setting. And in other cases some further control by the user of the mimetype is needed.
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