UltraEdit for Linux: who wants a license discount?

[Dotan Cohen]

>> Hebrew works for you in Kate? Is that KDE 3 or 4? KDE 4 Kate is very
>> broken for Hebrew. If you do reply to this, part, maybe it should be
>> broken off into another thread.
>
> KDE 3's Kate was horrible as far as Hebrew was concerned. I used kedit back
> then. KDE 4's Kate is not too bad in Hebrew, but still could use a lot of
> improvement. I hope to work on it some time when I'm in the mood, but I don't
> know how deep I'll need to delve. One bug that has bothered me in KMail is
> that long URLs get broken if they contain dashes. (That is tangential to
> Hebrew support in KMail or Kate.) It was reported, but eventually was marked
> as a Qt bug, and no one knows if it will get fixed or not and when. So
> sometimes fixing something in KDE 4 and its apps requires delving into many
> deeper layers.
>
> I've been looking in the direction of other Bidi-supporting editors, such as
> gedit, geany, etc. but always found Kate to be the best for what I need to do.
> I also recently wrote XML-Grammar-Fiction (also implementing a proto-source
> text-based markup language) to facilitate working on an XHTML/DocBook/XML
> document using Kate and other Bidi-ish editors:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/XML-Grammar/Fiction/
>

Have you not been bitten by there bugs?

Hebrew selection not showing
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192458

Right/left arrows do not work in RTL mode
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165397

Cursor direction dependent upon last letter typed, not selected keyboard layout
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172630

RTL: Directionality dependent upon word wrap
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187408

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Dotan Cohen

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