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Kate

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax... Created by KDE

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Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the kwrite editing widget of KDE, offering all the features of that plus a bunch of its own. Kate has been been moved to the kdesdk package in KDE4, and is a built-in part of your favorite desktop since release 2.2. More Info »

Being a native KDE application, Kate is of course born with networking transparency, as well as it integrates with the outstanding features of KDE. Choose it for viewing HTML sources from konqueror, editing configuration files, writing new applications or any other text editing task. You still need just one running instance of Kate.

With a multi-view editor like Kate you get a lot of advantages. You can view several instances of the same document and all instances are synced. Or you can view more files at the same time for easy reference or simultaneous editing. The terminal emulation and sidebar are docked windows that can be plugged out of the main window, or replaced therein according to your preference.

A Windows version is available along with KDE for Windows @ http://windows.kde.org/ .

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Kate was added by genba in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in Jun 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2019. It's possible to update the information on Kate or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by ajdbarros

about Kate · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -3 Helpful Report as spam

I tried to install Kate on a Mac. Well, it is possible, but you need quite a bit of knowledge of command lines, patience, perseverance and about 4 GB of disk space. Yes, because you need Xcode developer tooks, Fink and KDE... Kate is cool, but lacks macros. Just go for jEdit that is available for Win, Mac, Linux and also on a multiplatform Java installer.

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