• Understanding Kate documentation

    From Richard Owlett@rowlett@access.net to comp.editors on Sat Jul 6 08:36:05 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.editors

    Circumstances:
    I'm reformatting the appearance of "KJV Cambridge Paragraph Bible"
    [ https://ebible.org/Scriptures/engkjvcpb_html.zip ]
    The text of each Bible chapter is a single HTML line.
    [ e.g. the text of Psalm 119 is a line >30 kB long ;]
    Problem with Kate documentation: https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/config-dialog.html#pref-open-save
    Line Length Limit

    Unfortunately, due to deficiencies in Qtrao, KatePart experiences
    poor performance when working with extremely long lines. For that reason, KatePart will automatically wrap lines when they are longer than the
    number of characters specified here. To disable this, set this to 0.
    I understand "... wrap lines ..." to explicitly assume a visual
    presentation is active.
    When I'm manually editing a chapter I use Kate's GUI.
    It defaults to a read-only mode with a warning message asking if I wish
    to raise the limit.
    Questions:
    1. What would the observable difference be between setting that
    "Limit" to "0" or setting it to >= ~30 kB?
    2. What effect does this limit have when using command line mode.
    After I've determined what changes I want to make to *ALL*
    1000+ chapters I'll write a script to do all in one fell swoop.
    Note: I haven't yet experimented with even the simplest things
    in command line mode.
    3. Is there a Kate user mailing list or appropriate USENET group.
    The only list I've found is a developer's list.
    TIA
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