Embedding KTextEditor in FreeCAD

[jnxd]

My twopenny (or probably wrench in the cogs): any plans for vim bindings?

More seriously though, I think I'm more of the opinion that there will be as many editor preferences as users (or probably more, somehow). I am more of the opinion that its best to use an external editor, and make sure freecad is able to keep track of the fact that something has changed.

[kkremitzki]

A vi-style input mode would come for free with KTextEditor integration, another nice benefit, this can be demoed Kate: https://kate-editor.org/

[jnxd]

A vi-style input mode would come for free with KTextEditor integration, another nice benefit, this can be demoed Kate: https://kate-editor.org/

Well, doesn't that sound enticing!

[adrianinsaval]

And there are more widgets from KDE that I think could be useful in FreeCAD; for example, KCommandBar could be a good addition to FreeCAD too.

it seems there is demand for a feature like that https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 10#p524410

[alonso_jamm]

it seems there is demand for a feature like that

A command search would be useful for using hard to find commands. I found CommandManager while trying to embed KTextEditor in FreeCAD which has a method getAllCommands which returns all the commands registered in FreeCAD. And KCommandBar requires a vector of actions. So I think it may be possible to use the actions from the commands given by getAllCommands to setup KCommandBar.

However, right now I am busy trying to embed KTextEditor nicely in FreeCAD. The undo/redo history from KTextEditor doesn't interface nicely with FreeCAD undo/redo commands.

[bleber]

Hi.
These integration is usable, how I can test?

[alonso_jamm]

Hi.
These integration is usable, how I can test?

I haven't uploaded the code to github yet because I have been busy and I spent a lot of time trying to interface the undo/redo history of KTextEditor with FreeCAD's undo/redo commands. I am now trying to clean up the code and hopefully I will be able to upload the code to github by tomorrow.

[bleber]

Ok thanks to answer my question, and your work.

[Kunda1]

I haven't uploaded the code to github yet because I have been busy and I spent a lot of time trying to interface the undo/redo history of KTextEditor with FreeCAD's undo/redo commands. I am now trying to clean up the code and hopefully I will be able to upload the code to github by tomorrow.

[alonso_jamm]

I pushed the KTextEditor branch to github. It should contain all the needed changes to use KTextEditor as a text editor for FreeCAD. The dependencies needed to build this branch are the same than to build FreeCAD plus ktexteditor. ktexteditor should be provided by any major linux distro; for example, in arch linux is called ktexteditor or in ubuntu it is called libkf5texteditor-dev. I made optional to build FreeCAD with KTextEditor. So in order to build FreeCAD with KTextEditor it is needed to turn on the cmake switch "BUILD_KTEXTEDITOR." Then after building FreeCAD it is needed to turn on the preference to use KTextEditor in the preferences dialog:

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And that's it!, FreeCAD should then use KTextEditor when opening a macro file or a text file. There is still some polishing to do in order to better integrate KTextEditor with FreeCAD (for example, to be able to execute macro files when editing them with KTextEditor).