Kate is KDE’s powerful multi-document text and source-code editor. It can serve as a straightforward graphical editor, but its project, language and development facilities also allow it to cover much of the territory associated with a lightweight IDE.
The application handles large collections of files through projects, sessions and split editor views. It is particularly effective for users who want to keep editing, source navigation, version-control information and a terminal within one KDE application.
Kate remains highly configurable despite its extensive feature set. Development-oriented components are available without preventing the editor from being used for ordinary text files and quick configuration changes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multiple documents and multiple editor views.
- Horizontal and vertical window splitting.
- Syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages and file formats.
- Language Server Protocol integration for code intelligence.
- Project management facilities.
- Git integration.
- Multiple cursors and selections.
- Folder-wide search and replace.
- Built-in terminal.
- Vi input mode.
- Code folding and automatic indentation.
- Bracket matching and spell checking.
- Block selection mode.
- Regular-expression search across multiple lines.
- Session management.
- Configurable encodings and line endings.
- Network-transparent file access through KDE facilities.
- Bookmarks and document-modification indicators.
- Plugins for building, debugging, SQL work and other development tasks.
- Scripting support for extending editing behaviour.
Website: kate-editor.org
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Developer: KDE e.V.
License: MIT License or GNU Lesser General Public License v2.0
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