"Disable swap files syncing" does not work

[Wesley Stessens]

I was working on a GAE project. The GAE test server automatically recompiles and restarts the server when the source files have changed.

Apparently it does this ALL the time while typing in Kate. It seems like Kate keeps saving swap files after every keystroke.

This caused my system to freeze a few times because of memory usage (the GAE test server kept running new Python instances to recompile and restart the server)

The last 2 hours I've been looking for a temporary replacement for Kate, but I really can't seem to find another open source text editor with the same speed and functionality I am used to.

I tried "Disable swap files syncing" option, but this has no effect.

This bug has been reported to KDE by some Ubuntu users, but they claim it must be a packaging error or something wrong on the Ubuntu side, because the problem doesn't appear on other distributions and because the problem was fixed a long time ago upstream.

Can someone please check out what might be causing this problem? And/or provide a workaround?

This is a fresh 14.04.1 LTS installation.

$ kate -v
Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.13.2
Kate: 3.13.2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.