Kate

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4 / 5
webwww.kate-editor.org/
LicenseGNU GPL
StatusStable
PublisherKDE
PlatformLinux / UNIX

KDE Advanced Text Editor
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.
Some of the Kate application features are:

  • 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
  • Powerfull 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
  • Full DCOP scripting
  • Scriptable using JavaScript (KDE 3.5)
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One review for “Kate”

  • review by erniel May 27th, 2007 - 11:01 pm
    Features
    • 4 from 5
    Usability
    • 4 from 5
    Support
    • 4 from 5

    Most of my day to day programming work is done using Kate. I find it the best of the all purpose Linux text editors. Plenty of good features, but occasionally does strange things with indenting. Otherwise very stable.

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