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diff --git a/kate/data/tips b/kate/data/tips new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aaee34424 --- /dev/null +++ b/kate/data/tips @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>Kate comes with a nice set of plugins, providing simple +and advanced features of all sorts.</p> +<p>You can enable/disable plugins to suit your needs in the configuration dialog, +choose <strong>Settings ->configure</strong> to launch that.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>You can swap the characters on each side of the cursor just by pressing +<strong>Ctrl+T</strong></p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>You can export the current document as a HTML file, including +syntax highlighting.</p> +<p>Just choose <strong>File -> Export -> HTML...</strong></p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>You can split the Kate editor as many times as you like and +in either direction. Each frame has its own status bar and +can display any open document.</p> +<p>Just choose <br><strong>View -> Split [ Horizontal | Vertical ]</strong></p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>You can drag the Tool views (<em>File List</em> and <em>File Selector</em>) +to any side that you want them in Kate, or stack them, or even tear them off the +main window.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>Kate has a built-in terminal emulator, just click on <strong>"Terminal"</strong> at +the bottom to show or hide it as you desire.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>Kate can highlight the current line with a +<table bgcolor="yellow" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr><td>different +background color.<strong>|</strong></td></tr></table></p> +<p>You can set the color in the <em>Colors</em> page of the configuration +dialog.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>You can open the currently edited file in any other application from within +Kate.</p> +<p>Choose <strong>File -> Open With</strong> for the list of programs +configured +for the document type. There is also an option <strong>Other...</strong> to +choose any application on your system.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>You can configure the editor to always display the line numbers and/or +bookmark panes when started from the <strong>View Defaults</strong> page of the +configuration dialog.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>You can download new or updated <em>Syntax highlight definitions</em> from +the <strong>Highlighting</strong> page in the configuration dialog.</p> +<p>Just click the <em>Download...</em> button on the <em>Highlight Modes</em> +tab (You have to be online, of course...).</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>You can cycle through all open documents by pressing <strong>Alt+Left</strong> +or <strong>Alt+Right</strong>. The next/previous document will immediately be displayed +in the active frame.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>You can do cool sed-like regular expression replacements using <em>Command Line</em>.</p> +<p>For example, press <strong>F7</strong> and enter <code>s /oldtext/newtext/g</code> +to replace "oldtext" with "newtext" throughout the current +line.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|part"> +<html> +<p>You can repeat your last search by just pressing <strong>F3</strong>, or +<strong>Shift+F3</strong> if you want to search backwards.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>You can filter the files displayed in the <em>File Selector</em> tool view. +</p> +<p>Simply enter your filter in the filter entry at the bottom, for example: +<code>*.html *.php</code> if you only want to see HTML and PHP files in the +current folder.</p> +<p>The File Selector will even remember your filters for you.</strong></p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="Kate|app"> +<html> +<p>You can have two views - or even more - of the same document in Kate. Editing +in either will be reflected in both.</p> +<p>So if you find yourself scrolling up and down to look at text at the other +end of a document, just press <strong>Ctrl+Shift+T</strong> to split +horizontally.</p> +</html> +</tip> +<tip category="kate|app"> +<html> +<p>Press <strong>F8</strong> or <strong>Shift+F8</strong> to switch to the +next/previous frame.</p> +</html> +</tip> |