On 26 January 2012 14:31, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>>> I've been looking for a way to do this, and Darrell also
>>> mentioned
>>> that he was looking for a was to use the Multiple Document
>>> Interface
>>> with firefox.
>>>
>>> I have written a patch that will enable you to only use a
>>> single kate
>>> window. It is controlled by a kate kconfig option and can be
>>> changed
>>> under kate's general settings tab.
>>
>> Looks like the new option is placed in $TDEHOME/share/config/katerc
>> [General] UseInstance=0/1?
>>
>> I see the check box in your patch, but I haven't yet tried to build.
>
> Something else that might be interesting to add is an override flag that,
> if passed to Kate, launches in the desired instance mode.  For example
> --sdi or --mdi.
>
> Tim


That is a very good point. I will add a --sdi flag then.

what happens when a user does -u with this patch? nothing at all.

there is an if statement that states something like this:
if MDI enabled or -U option then open in the current instance.

I would like someone to test it as well, but I will make modifications
and add it to the bug tracker