No option for "External Tools" in Kate plugins

Question

I was reading Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux by Jeff Duntemann, and in a chapter he told to configure Kate and enable External Tools.

Then I faced the problem. I am using Linux Mint 18.1 and using Kate version 15.12.3, I could not find External Tools in plugins. There is no option for it. I have also installed Kwrite and as said in the book that should have installed the necessary plugins for Kate. What might be the problem?

Answer 1

The External Tools plugin was disabled around 2011/2012, due to lack of maintainer support.

Information about currently supported plugins can be found here.

Answer 2

A Kate developer here: The External Tools plugin is back with the KDE Applications 19.12 release, see: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-09-21-external-tools-plugin/