Kate

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Description

Kate is a popular text editor for the KDE desktop environment and forms the basis for KWrite too. Kate's main difference with KWrite is its ability to edit multiple documents at the same time via either a tab bar style or simple document list. Kate is installed by default when you choose to use the KDE desktop environment. Kate is completely customisable and highly powerful.

Features

Some of the Kate application features are shown below, but see also About Kate.

• MDI, window splitting, window tabbing;
• Spell checking;
• CR, CRLF, LF newline support;
• Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc...);
• Encoding conversion;
• Regular expression based find & replace;
• Powerful syntax highlighting and bracket matching;
• Code and text folding;
• Infinite undo/redo support;
• Block selection mode;
• Auto indentation;
• Auto completion support;
• Shell integration;
• Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.);
• Plugin architecture for the application and editor component;
• Customizable shortcuts;
• Integrated command line; and
• Full DCOP scripting.

Sessions

Kate has the ability to save sessions, for instance, when you first use Kate you will get a dialog to ask you to decide what your default session should be.