kate
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Details for kate
Package name
- kate
License
- GPL-2.0+
Last updated
- 26 May 2026 - latest/stable
- 5 July 2026 - latest/beta
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KDE Advanced Text Editor
Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some preliminary scripting support.
Features:
- 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.) using kioslaves
- Plugin architecture for the application and editor component
- Customizable shortcuts
- Integrated command line
- Scriptable using JavaScript
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