KATE(1) KDE User's Manual KATE(1)NAMEkate - Advanced text editor for KDE
SYNOPSISkate [-s, --start name] [--startanon] [-n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p,
--pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column
column] [-i, --stdin] [-u, --use] [KDE Generic Options]
[Qt Generic Options]
DESCRIPTION
Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.
Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the
name KWrite.
Some of Kate's many features include configurable syntax highlighting
for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the
ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface
(MDI), and a self-contained terminal emulator.
But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open
several files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX®'s many
configuration files. This document was written in Kate.
OPTIONS-s, --start name
Start Kate with a given session.
--startanon
Start Kate with a new anonymous session, implies -n.
-n, --new
Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if start is used and
another Kate instance already has the given session opened), forced
if no parameters and no URLs are given at all.
-b, --block
If using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if
URLs given to open.
-p, --pid pid
Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is ignored if start
is used and another Kate instance already has the given session
opened).
-e, --encoding name
Set encoding for the file to open
You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for
instance. (The command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which
may be helpful to you.)
-l, --line line
Navigate to this line
-c, --column column
Navigate to this column
-i, --stdin
Read the contents of stdin
-u, --use
Use an already running Kate instance; default, only for
compatibility
SEE ALSO
More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate (either
enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kate).
There is also further information available at the Kate website[1].
EXAMPLES
To open a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing
Kate window, you could use:
kate-c 15 -l
25 -u source.cpp
If you have an active internet connection, you can take advantage of
KDE's network transparency to open a file from an ftp site. If you do
not have write permission on the remote server, the file will be opened
read only and you will be prompted for a local filename to save to if
you make changes. If you do have write permission, changes will be
saved transparently over the network.
kate ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README
AUTHORS
The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann<cullmann@kde.org>. A
comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the
complete user manual mentioned above.
AUTHOR
Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
Author.
NOTES
1. the Kate website
http://kate-editor.org/
K Desktop Environment 2010-10-06 KATE(1)
