Re: example of a custom script for Kate

You have to update Kate and KTextEditor as well, since the External Tools
plugin uses new API that was added later.

I suggest you use the AppImage or similar instead, e.g.:
https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kate_Release_appimage/

Best regards
Dominik

Bohdan Mushkevych <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 23. Juli 2020,
21:20:

> Greetings
>
> Just wondering if you could advise on how to install "External Tools" into
> Kate on Ubuntu 18.04?
>
> Sincerely,
> Dan
>
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 20:41, Bohdan Mushkevych <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chenxiong
>>
>> Thank you for the email and please excuse late reply.
>>
>> I see this plugin in *kate/addons *github repository [1], but I am not
>> sure where to look for build instructions. Also - it doesn't seem as Ubuntu
>> 18.04 LTS has anything like *kdeaddons* or similar package.
>>
>> Could you please advise on how to install "External Tools" into Kate on
>> Ubuntu 18.04?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dan
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/KDE/kate/tree/master/addons
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 20:06, Chenxiong Qi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bohdan,
>>>
>>> External Tools plugin has a predefined "JSON Format Full File". Maybe
>>> you can have a try.
>>>
>>> On 7/2/20 5:41 AM, Bohdan Mushkevych wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > First of all - thank you great text editor Kate.
>>> > Recently I started looking on how to add a simple command to format
>>> > JSON, and tried to follow the blogpost from 2009 [1].
>>> > However it did not work for me.
>>> >
>>> > Perhaps you have a Github example of how-to a simple custom command
>>> > would look like?
>>> > Afterall, I probably don't need a long blog post - just a source code
>>> to
>>> > peek into.
>>> >
>>> > Sincerely,
>>> > Dan
>>> >
>>> > [1]
>>> > https://kate-editor.org/2009/10/29/extending-kate-with-scripts/
>>>
>>