Kate: one instance only!

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday 16 August 2009 04:35:38 pm Willy Hamra wrote:
> 2009/8/16 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> > No matter what I do, I cannot get Kate to open new files in an
> > existing instance. Please, how is this done in KDE 4.x? Thanks.
>
> this was discussed a while ago. you need to change file association
> for texts. there's a parameter when passed to kate, it reuses an
> existing instance. i'm not on my PC right now, just type "kate --help"
> in konsole, and see what it is. change the file association
> accordingly to pass that parameter everytime a file is selected to
> open with kate :)

adding '--use' works for this
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