Kate

1 Review(s)
4.00 / 5
Web www.kate-editor.org/
License GNU GPL
Status Stable
Publisher KDE
Platform Linux / 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)

1 review(s) for “Kate”

  • erniel May 27, 2007 at 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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