Glad it helped. I too am a heavy long term Kate user, if you are interested, over the years I have created a lot of utility scripts for Kate for use with the "Filter Text" command. If you want copies tell me how to send the collection to you and I will. They are mostly sed based scripts for manipulating large amounts of text inside Kate.
Whoa, I never got that smart with Kate. I keep telling myself I'm going to force myself to one day sit and learn how to use reg expressions in Kate to do proper searches. I never knew I could use sed directly in Kate. I always did that from a terminal window.
Just send by email if you want.
RE: I changed the focus stealing prevention level from Low to None...
Where or how do you do that? Somehow I never found that in all the years I used KDE.
Control Center, Desktop, Window Behavior, Advanced tab.
I submitted an enhancement request (Bug report 642) a few days ago to move the focus prevention option to the Focus tab. To me makes more sense there.
Darrell