I became fed up with the newer versions of the gedit text editor which, like many other applications, appears to be moving towards “mouse-only” commands. I find it inconvenient to keep moving between keyboard and mouse just to do something that I used to be able to do with a few keystrokes while my hands are already on the keyboard.
So I moved to the Kate editor. It’s very good and is very configurable. However; I discovered recently that it saves a backup in XDP format of every file-save action. Apparently this is a format that allows easy conversion between XML and PDF formats. Not that I would ever want to do that. And these files just keep mounting up.
I found this link: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-prevent-backup-file-creation-kate-and-kwrite-940857/ that explains how to stop Kate from doing this, as follows:
Settings > Configure Kate > Editor Component > Open/Save > Advanced
Uncheck the box next to local files under “Backup on Save”
but when I navigated to that Kate settings page, the box was already un-ticked.
Does anyone have any experience of overcoming this feature?
Thanks.
Keith
{Ubuntu 18.04 on Lenovo Thinkpad T500. Kate Version 20.04.0}