Kate: one instance only!

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/8/17 Perry <pwhite at bluewin.ch>:
> Le Sunday 16 August 2009 23:15:20 Clay Weber, vous avez écrit :
>> 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
>
> I googled a bit and found:
> <http://awesomelinux.blogspot.com/2009/05/make-kubuntu-904-use-single-kate.html>

Thanks, all. Of course I googled before posting but did not find that
link. The proposed fix works. Have a great week!

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