Kate is a multi document editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.
With a multi-view editor like Kate you get a lot of advantages. You can view several instances of the same document and all instances are synced. Or you can view more files at the same time for easy reference or simultaneous editing. The terminal emulation and sidebar are docked windows that can be plugged out of the main window, or replaced therein according to your preference.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Powerful syntax highlighting and bracket matching. Highlighting support for more than 180 languages.
- MDI, window splitting, window tabbing.
- Spell checking.
- CR, CRLF, LF newline support.
- Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc).
- Encoding conversion.
- Search and replace text using regular expressions.
- Drag and drop text editing.
- Code and text folding.
- Infinite undo/redo support.
- Block selection mode.
- Auto indentation.
- Auto completion support.
- Integrated shell.
- Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc).
- Plugin architecture for the application and editor component.
- Customizable shortcuts.
- Integrated command line.
- Full DCOP scripting.
- Mini-map scroll bar – shows a a mini-map in place of the scroll bar.
- Notification system – modifications are displayed when viewing remote files, or data recovery and swap files.
- Scriptable using JavaScript.
- Plugins.
Website: kate-editor.org
Support: Planet Kate, Support
Developer: KDE e.V.
License: MIT License or Lesser General Public License v2+
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