Kate text editor cannot handle lines longer than 1024?

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This is a very annoying limitation for editing some config files, such as mozilla prefs.js. It usually contains lines longer than that.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '12 at 15:48

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This is a well know "security option", it is configurable:

Go to:

Settings / configure editor / open and save
set line length limit [ 1024 ]

and change 1024

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answered Nov 21 '12 at 15:48

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Setting the Line Length Limit to '0' will disable it completely. – dhaumann Nov 07 '13 at 14:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '12 at 15:40

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If you are against VIM and EMACS (give them a try), there's gnome's alternative Gedit, then theres also the lightweight IDE Geany, and Mousepad, and there are the full fledged IDEs like Ajunta, NetBeans, QTCreator, etc.

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 05 '22 at 09:11

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This problem is nowadays fixed, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345775

In Kate 19.12.3 from 2019 line with thousands of columns seems to work fine. Though 127 000 column causes lag unlike in for example Geany.

answered Jan 05 '22 at 09:11

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Kate text editor cannot handle lines longer than 1024?

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