Hi all!
Is there a way to change the default text editor? I would like to use kwrite instead of kate.
I'm running 3.5.13-2 from Slavec's repository.
Nik
On 04/20/2013 04:06 AM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Is there a way to change the default text editor? I would like to use kwrite instead of kate.
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
On Saturday 20 April 2013 14:52:47 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 04/20/2013 04:06 AM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Is there a way to change the default text editor? I would like to use kwrite instead of kate.
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
Taht doesn't work for me. I click on KWrite, and it opens in KWrite.
But this works: KControl > KDE components > file associations > find file name patter > type in .txt > click on plain > move KWrite to the top of the list.
And thank you, Nik, for prodding me into doing it rather than suffering in silence!
Lisi
On 04/20/2013 11:19 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
Taht doesn't work for me. I click on KWrite, and it opens in KWrite.
I guess I'm missing something. Isn't kwrite what you want?
On Saturday 20 April 2013 19:58:03 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 04/20/2013 11:19 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
Taht doesn't work for me. I click on KWrite, and it opens in KWrite.
I guess I'm missing something. Isn't kwrite what you want?
I wanted to set KWrite as the default text editor. (See the subject above.) I have now done so via KControl.
To quote you: "In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK."
The method you advocated did not work for me because the application simply opened. I was not given the choice of ticking "Remember application".
Lisi
On 04/20/2013 12:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
The method you advocated did not work for me because the application simply opened. I was not given the choice of ticking "Remember application".
Strange.. it's always been there for me, right above the OK button, ever since KDE3.
On Saturday 20 April 2013 03:26:22 pm Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 04/20/2013 12:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
The method you advocated did not work for me because the application simply opened. I was not given the choice of ticking "Remember application".
Strange.. it's always been there for me, right above the OK button, ever since KDE3.
You are both right.
If Kwrite is one of the choices then clicking on it will just open the file in Kwrite. What you must then do is choose "other", even if kwrite is a choice, and write in or navigate to kwrite and then you will have the option to "Remember application".
Andy
On Saturday 20 April 2013 20:38:35 Andy wrote:
On Saturday 20 April 2013 03:26:22 pm Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 04/20/2013 12:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
The method you advocated did not work for me because the application simply opened. I was not given the choice of ticking "Remember application".
Strange.. it's always been there for me, right above the OK button, ever since KDE3.
You are both right.
If Kwrite is one of the choices then clicking on it will just open the file in Kwrite. What you must then do is choose "other", even if kwrite is a choice, and write in or navigate to kwrite and then you will have the option to "Remember application".
Of course we are both right. Dan said that on his system if he performed a specific set of instructions it had a specific result. I said that on my system the same set of instructions produced a different result. We were both just describing what we saw. Unless one of us is lying, which I am sure that you are not implying, then each of us sees what he says that he saw, and we are both "right".
The only point at issue is that our systems behave differently, when we might have anticipated that they would behave the same.
Lisi
Kate is not my preferred text editor either. Normally, even for composing/editing bash scripts, kwrite is preferred. For advanced stuff beyond kwrite I use "geany"
What I do is:
a right-click on a normal text file. then a "properties" box opens where I can click the "file type" icon. From there, application preference order can be chosen.
This has to be repeated (if wanted) for diff, log and maybe others.
snip from my current ~/'trinity/share/config/profilerc (the actual config file for application preferences):
[text/plain - 1] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kde-kwrite.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=3 ServiceType=text/plain
[text/plain - 2] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kde-kate.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=2 ServiceType=text/plain
[text/plain - 3] AllowAsDefault=true Application=abiword.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=1 ServiceType=text/plain
[text/plain - 4] AllowAsDefault=true Application=katepart.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=2 ServiceType=text/plain
[text/plain - 5] AllowAsDefault=true Application=karm_part.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=1 ServiceType=text/plain
[text/x-diff - 1] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kde-kwrite.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=3 ServiceType=text/x-diff
[text/x-diff - 2] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kde-kate.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=2 ServiceType=text/x-diff
[text/x-diff - 3] AllowAsDefault=true Application=abiword.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=1 ServiceType=text/x-diff
[text/x-diff - 4] AllowAsDefault=true Application=katepart.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=3 ServiceType=text/x-diff
[text/x-diff - 5] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kdiff3part.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=2 ServiceType=text/x-diff
[text/x-diff - 6] AllowAsDefault=truewhere Application=karm_part.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=1 ServiceType=text/x-diff
[text/x-log - 1] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kde-kwrite.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=3 ServiceType=text/x-log
[text/x-log - 2] AllowAsDefault=true Application=kde-kate.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=2 ServiceType=text/x-log
[text/x-log - 3] AllowAsDefault=true Application=abiword.desktop GenericServiceType=Application Preference=1 ServiceType=text/x-log
[text/x-log - 4] AllowAsDefault=true Application=katepart.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=2 ServiceType=text/x-log
[text/x-log - 5] AllowAsDefault=true Application=karm_part.desktop GenericServiceType=KParts/ReadOnlyPart Preference=1 ServiceType=text/x-log
On Saturday 20 April 2013 20:26:22 Dan Youngquist wrote:
Strange.. it's always been there for me, right above the OK button, ever since KDE3.
I haven't got an OK button either. Rt-click > open with > KWrite > application opens.
Lisi
On 04/20/2013 02:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
I haven't got an OK button either. Rt-click > open with > KWrite > application opens.
Oh, I see what you did now. When you right-clicked on the file and went to Open With, you selected kwrite there instead of going to Other. Of course your way to change the default works too, but my way is much faster.
On Sunday 21 April 2013 05:26:22 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 04/20/2013 02:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
I haven't got an OK button either. Rt-click > open with > KWrite > application opens.
Oh, I see what you did now. When you right-clicked on the file and went to Open With, you selected kwrite there instead of going to Other. Of course your way to change the default works too, but my way is much faster.
Ah! I know that I have blind spots, but that takes the biscuit! Yes, your way is quicker!
I still can't make it work. But I am obviously just being blind again. :-(
Lisi
Am Samstag, 20. April 2013 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
On Saturday 20 April 2013 14:52:47 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 04/20/2013 04:06 AM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Is there a way to change the default text editor? I would like to use kwrite instead of kate.
In Konqueror, right-click on a plain text file, Open With / Other, type in kwrite or select it from the list, check 'Remember application', click OK.
Taht doesn't work for me. I click on KWrite, and it opens in KWrite.
But this works: KControl > KDE components > file associations > find file name patter > type in .txt > click on plain > move KWrite to the top of the list.
And thank you, Nik, for prodding me into doing it rather than suffering in silence!
Lisi
Hi Lisi!
Yes, that works for *.txt. But it does not change the default text editor. Any other unkown file extension opens kate :-(
I was looking for something like "kcontrol -> KDE Components -> Component Chooser". There an option "Embedded Texe Editor" exists, but the only selectable entry is "Embedded Advanced Text Editor" which results in a call to kate. I's Like to change that to kwrite.
Nik
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