Kate opens files in a new window when used from the command line

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I usually open files from the command line using:

kate <filename>

I recently updated kate and now when I do this it opens it in a new window.

Not sure if this is a bug, or was intentional and changable with a setting.
I am running the latest version from here as the microsoft store installers keep freezing on me.

This is running on Windows 10 21H2.

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So there was a similar post regarding editing all files in the same process a while back, and I’m not sure if Kate differs much in Windows, but assuming that the command line flags are the same you could try using either -s or --start-name.

Something like:

kate -s mysession <filename>
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This works, thanks!

Before i updated it would open it in the current session by default if i used the embedded terminal, do you have any idea why this changed?

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It turns out the problem was caused by having two different installations of kate, one from scoop and one from the executable, and launching from the command line opened a different one than the one i was runnning.

tl;dr: problem was between the keyboard and chair.

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