Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

2024-09-17 Thread Richard Owlett
My system running Debian 9.13 with MATE Desktop Environment 1.16.2 KATE's Help menu reports Help->About Editor Component Kate Part Version 5.28.0 Help->About Kate Kate Version 16.08.3 I'm relatively new to KATE. I've used many editors {even had an intro to TECO back in 70's) My current primary e

Re: Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

2024-09-17 Thread Richard Troy
On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: *QUESTION* How do I start KATE as it would have been if it had never been run on this machine? Kate, as most utilities with personalizable attributes do, has an entry in your home directory. I've only tried kate once and haven't bothered wiht

Re: Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

2024-09-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/17/2024 11:30 AM, Richard Troy wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: *QUESTION* How do I start KATE as it would have been if it had never been run on this machine? Kate, as most utilities with personalizable attributes do, has an entry in your home directory. I've onl

Re: Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

2024-09-17 Thread Richard Troy
On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: The following, however, showed what you need to muck with: $ ls -A ~/.* | grep -i kate Presuming all that shows up is exclusively kate-the-editor related and not something else (NOT a safe bet), you could remove all of it and it should be as if

Re: Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

2024-09-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/17/2024 12:23 PM, Richard Troy wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:  The following, however, showed what you need to muck with:  $ ls -A ~/.* | grep -i kate  Presuming all that shows up is exclusively kate-the-editor related and not  something else (NOT a safe bet), you c