On 17 January 2012 21:04, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@yahoo.com> wrote:
> When Kate is already open, and in
> Firefox I press Ctrl-U to open the web page in the assigned
> external text editor (Kate), the web content opens in a
> second Kate session.
>
> I want to use the current session only. I'm an MDI kind of
> person. :)
>
> Editing the Firefox preferences to "kate --use" then causes
> Firefox to open the web page content in the Firefox viewer
> rather than Kate.
>
> All of my kate related *.desktop files are set to kate
> --use.
>
> Any ideas how to fix this?

Anybody?

Darrell

Seconded.

In general, Can I force kate to ONLY  use one window?

we need a way to always to it :-)