KATE editor - how to get document preview working?

[fairyrune]

hello everyone!

i'm having issues with the kate editor on linux. i wanted something else aside from phoenix code as they've introduced AI-as-default (kate has AI plugins but they're not installed by default, so it's less offensive to me) and it seems to work well apart from... the document preview plugin.

this is supposed to be a live preview of the document you're editing, but all mine says is "no preview available". i'm just previewing a regular ol HTML file, but nothing...! is there anything i need to do to fix this? i can't find anything online at all... 

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Are you using KDE? (If not, this could be the issue - Kate is very interwoven with KDE, and things might not work out on other DEs). You'd need quite some luck to find somebody here who knows enough about Kate to help you with this, I'm afraid - while it is possible, I'd recommend to get in touch with the Kate support channels.

A text editor that I can recommend a lot is Geany, although this is not what you asked for :).