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Kate Part’s modelines – also called Kate document variables – are Kate Part’s implementation of document variables, similar to Emacs and vim modelines. Document variables can be used to set Kate settings local to a file. This is for example for using another indenter than the one defined in the GUI settings. Or assume you work on two projects, the first indents with spaces and the second with tabs, then you can simply add a modeline that contains the specific document variables that set the specific indentation properties. Read More

Note: Please refer to the Kate Handbook for the most recent version of how to write syntax highlighting files. Hint: If you want to write a syntax highlighting file, the XML Completion plugin might be of great help. This section is an overview of the Highlight Definition XML format in KDE4. Based on a small example it will describe the main components and their meaning and usage. The next section will go into detail with the highlight detection rules. Read More

Warning This is an outdated tutorial and is only kept here for historical reasons. For an up-to-date version of the tutorial please check https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/kate/plugin/ Introduction First at all, why writing plugins for an editor ? Good question, and I hope I have a good answer: Because we want Kate to be small and all extended features not all users need should go into plugins (like CVS suppport, project managment, coffee cooking ;) Therefore Kate provides a quite full-featured plugin interface and interfaces to all important stuff in the Kate application (the documents, views, windows, sidebar …). Read More