SUMMARY Kate is my most favorite text editor for 10+ years, one of many features i like and use is "Replace..." and in its dialog, there are few buttons, I am talking about Replace All, which, when alt is pressed shows that (in English locale) Alt+A would replace all, this however stopped working couple years ago. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open a text file in kate 2. hit Ctrl+R and type something in Find - "." is good enough for Regular expression mode 3. hit Alt+A to Replace All OBSERVED RESULT nothing is replaced, Alt+R works and replaces first instance of string in Find in opened text, clicking on the Replace All button replaces all instances EXPECTED RESULT Alt+A should do same thing as clicking on Replace All ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ...I would prefer this to be as a keyboard shortcut, so it stays the same even in non-english locale - not all users of my computer are English speakers.
Hi! Kate is also my favorite text editor for years :-) I am able to reproduce this issue on Kate version 23.11.70 and version 23.03.70 On my side, the problem comes from a conflict between multiple buttons sharing the same accelerator key : - Alt+A correctly triggers "Replace all" action when no other button have Alt+A as its accelerator key. - Alt+A does not work when the "Search & Replace" plugin toolbar is also visible, the "Search" button has the same Alt+A accelerator key. I agree that shortcuts could be a good solution : - they can be configured by users according to their needs - conflicts are detected (a popup "Ambiguous shortcut detected" indicates what to do to solve it)
That should work again with the latest version, at least for me it does.
Version 24.04.70