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Kate is a Feature-Packed Text Editor
Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like.
Make Your Code Pretty With Syntax Highlighting
Kate supports highlighting for over 300 languages making it easier to read code in almost all programming languages. Kate also understands how brackets works and will help you navigate inside complex code blocks hierarchies. On-the-fly spellchecking is also included and will help you check your text before publishing.
Work on Complex Projects Efficiently
Work on multiple files at the same time with split views. Use the project sidebar to navigate your project directory structures and use Kate's smart tabs to quickly access your recently opened documents. The powerful search and replace tool lets you quickly search inside your entire projects.
Develop your Next Application with Kate
Kate is the perfect tool for programming as it includes autocompletion for many languages with the help of the Language Server Protocol (LSP). The editor has been optimized for editing code and provide scriptable auto indentation, VI input mode, rectangular block selection mode, smart comment and uncomment handling and much more.
Plugins
Kate contains many plugins installed by defaults, making it more powerful than any other text editor. Use the integrated terminal emulator to run commands directly from Kate, execute SQL queries with the SQL extension, use GDB to debug your program, build projects with just one click, and much, much more.
News
Sunday, 28 February 2021
The Kate Text Editor - February 2021
Like in January 2021, a lot of stuff happened for Kate in February 2021, too. I will skip the stuff that I already reported on Valentine’s Day. The web site for example has still a new design and some people are still working behind the scenes to improve it!
Let’s take a look at which cool new stuff you can expect to have in the 21.04 release of Kate. If you are adventurous: build the current development version yourself and try the stuff today.
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Sunday, 14 February 2021
The Kate Text Editor - Valentine's Day 2021
Kate, KTextEditor and Co. did get a nice stream of updates in the first two weeks of February 2021.
I will just pick a few things I really liked, if you want to have a full overview, you can go through the list of all merged patches.
Even more multi-threading in search in files After the initial parallelization of the actual search in files as described here, Kåre came up with the idea to parallelize the creation of the file list we use for the search, too.
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Sunday, 07 February 2021
Setup your KDE development environment - kdesrc-build & Kate
KDE’s developer experience evolution Kate (and KDE) is always in need of more contributors.
Over the years we tried to make the development experience more pleasant and move to tools that are more widely adopted by developers around the world.
We traveled from ancient CVS repositories over to Subversion and since years are up and running on Git.
We moved our code hosting to a more beginner friendly GitLab instance in the last year, too.
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Friday, 29 January 2021
Search In Files & Multi-Threading
Kate has since years a very nifty search in files plugin. It allows to do multi-file searches and replacements.
Together with the projects plugin, I use this plugin daily, it is great!
But, whereas it was very useful already since the first release and got polished a lot in the last years, it is by far not the fastest file search out there. Let’s be honest: for example Visual Studio Code is fast, we are slow, that is bad :=P
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