Kate has an intolerable flaw; read on, please.

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amenex
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Joined: 01/03/2015

Several times I have been working on an already-saved text file in Kate when I inadvertently touch a certain but unknown key on my keyboard that instantly transforms several kilobytes of data into a single line of text, usually the last line that I was trying to paste into the file. There is no safe way of undoing that error, and closing Kate then replaces the previous work with that one line, destroying the entire file.

There is no "are you sure ?" popup window, no menu choice appears. I'm hosed.

What is that miserable little key, and why does Kate permit this error in the first place ?

Until I find out what's wrong, Kate is banished. Gone.

amenex
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Post script: I switched to LeafPad; when my errant pinkie touches that mystery key, a _new page_ pops up alongside the original, making the misteak easily corrected; disaster averted. Hello LeafPad, good-bye Kate.

Legimet
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Joined: 12/10/2013

I have never had this issue. Do you know what key it is?

onpon4
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Joined: 05/30/2012

I don't use Kate, but decided to check it out. I didn't find any key that does what you describe. I assume, if you are correct in your interpretation, that this is some sort of bug in... I don't know, some function that has something to do with line endings, maybe. But I use gedit, so it doesn't matter to me.

In any case, I don't understand why you posted this topic. You didn't ask any questions (other than one that almost seems to be rhetorical and is impossible to answer due to the lack of information), and Kate's developers aren't here to my knowledge, so complaining here about it is useless.

Takumi13
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Joined: 07/03/2016

That is why I always use vim.

jules_verne
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Joined: 01/02/2017

You can take this issue to Kate developers or their community. You can contact em by mailing list: name at domain
IRC: #kate at irc.kde.org.

albertoefg
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Joined: 04/21/2016

This is a known bug that has an easy fix:

sudo apt-get install emacs

Then learn Emacs :)

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Well... To be fair is probably not that fast but it is worth it :)

libreleah
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JadedCtrl
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Joined: 08/11/2014

Woah, the mate wanted a text editor, not an OS!
He should use ed.
ed is standard. ED IS *THE* EDITOR.

JadedCtrl
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Joined: 08/11/2014

*snip-snip* (My comment was double-posted. :/)