Bug#598443: kate: Kate reuses instances even without the -u option.
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 28. September 2010, 16:09:58 schrieb Andrew Greenberg:
> I need to run multiple Kate instances from the command line. I expect
> `kate file1` followed by `kate file2` to open two separate kate
> instances since those commands NOT include the `-u` flag. However, it
> *always* opens up in the already open instance even without that flag.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something? Or there's some kind of alias somewhere
> on my system that replaces `kate` with `kate -u`? I certainly can't find
> it, if so.
The default behaviour of kate seems to have changed between 4.3 and 4.4. Have
a look at "kate --help":
> -n, --new Force start of a new kate instance (is
> ignored if start is used and another kate instance already has the
> given session opened), forced if no parameters and no URLs are given
> at all
>
> [...]
>
> -u, --use Reuse existing Kate instance; default, only
> for compatibility
So "kate" starts a new instance, "kate somefile" reuses an existing instance,
"kate -n somefile" forces start of a new kate instance. As documented, -u is
default behaviour, the option is only left for compatibility reasons.
Does that answer your question?
Eckhart
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