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The Linux GUI Editor Showdown Part One: KDevelop

June 19th, 2008 by possible248

This is a series of posts that will give a quick overview of a variety of GUI text editors for Linux. Terminal text editors (Vi, nano, etc.) will not be covered here, as well as Emacs, as most developers know about Emacs. The first part of the series will cover KDevelop, my personal favorite text editor for programming. We will be looking at KDevelop version 3.5.1, and not KDE 4 KDevelop.

Other editors covered in this series:

Geany
Mousepad
Gedit
More to come

If there is one thing that it isn’t, KDevelop is not lightweight, as it’s main focus is features and flexibility.

KDevelop's loading screen

When it has finished loading, you are are greeted with the following screen. Click on it to see the full size version.

You will notice that you have the ability to store code snippets in KDevelop, as I have demonstrated in the above screenshot with storing the tag that tells a browser to load an external CSS file

To create a new file, you first have to tell KDevelop where to put the file and what the filename is. This is done so the syntax highlighter knows what type of file it is.

KDevelop's new file dialog

KDevelop is a text editor that uses tabs, has a built in terminal, and you can read documentation from within it.

KDevelop is very customizable. There are many options you can set. Like other KDE programs, keyboard shortcuts are also editable. KDevelop can also access files on a remote server, thanks to KIO.

KDevelop supports syntax highlighting for many, many languages. Syntax highlighting is also customizable, should you not like the colors.

That concludes this informal overview of KDevelop. Give it a whirl and see if it fits your development needs.

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Jake (aka Jawee) Yesterday 11:54 AM 1 point
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I assume that you're going to cover it in the future, but KDevelop really doesn't have too many more features that Kate, which I prefer.

I still think Emacs would be worth a review though.

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possible248 Yesterday 02:10 PM 1 point
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You are correct that KDevelop doesn't have too many features over Kate, but I still like KDevelop better. I will cover Kate later in this series, so maybe I'll do a feature compare-contrast.

As for Emacs, somebody else will have to guest-post a review for that. I can't stand Emacs.

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Jake (aka Jawee) Yesterday 02:19 PM 1 point
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I may be willing to do that, but I have been troubling writing lately. Although I do not use it much anymore, I really like Emacs.

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possible248 Yesterday 03:50 PM 1 point
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If you ever get the time to do so, you can contact me at possible248 [.at.] gmail[.]com.

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