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Sven Brauch
Personal blog · blog.svenbrauch.deprogrammingsystemsgames
Sven Brauch writes Linux, Games, Programming and some random science stuff, a personal blog at blog.svenbrauch.de about programming, systems and games. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Multi-Cursor Support in the Kate Text Editor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN comment links the author's 2011 post on KDevelop's Python argument type guessing, cited as evidence that the feature existed early. The thread is about the Geany editor.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Multi-Cursor Support in the Kate Text Editor3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-23
What Hacker News says?
still, I always preferred kate[0] (I still use it everyday, even on windows 10) and kdevelop[1] (it had type guessing for python since 2011![2]) [0] https://kate-editor.org/ [1] https://www.kdevelop.org/ [2] http://blog.svenbrauch.de/2011/09/09/kdev-python-argument-ty...
Comment linking /2011/09/09/kdev-python-argument-type-guessing/
on “Geany – A flyweight IDE”Submitted Setting up a public NetHack Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-Cursor Support in the Kate Text Editor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-Cursor Support in the Kate Text Editor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preview: Multi-Cursor Support in the Kate Text Editor as a story · 2 points
HN discussion