1KATE(1)                        KDE User's Manual                       KATE(1)
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NAME

6       kate - Advanced text editor for KDE
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SYNOPSIS

9       kate [-s, --start name] [--startanon] [-n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p,
10            --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column
11            column] [-i, --stdin] [-u, --use] [KDE Generic Options]
12            [Qt Generic Options]
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DESCRIPTION

15       Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.
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17       Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the
18       name KWrite.
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20       Some of Kate's many features include configurable syntax highlighting
21       for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the
22       ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface
23       (MDI), and a self-contained terminal emulator.
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25       But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open
26       several files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX®'s many
27       configuration files. This document was written in Kate.
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OPTIONS

30       -s, --start name
31           Start Kate with a given session.
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33       --startanon
34           Start Kate with a new anonymous session, implies -n.
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36       -n, --new
37           Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if start is used and
38           another Kate instance already has the given session opened), forced
39           if no parameters and no URLs are given at all.
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41       -b, --block
42           If using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if
43           URLs given to open.
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45       -p, --pid  pid
46           Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is ignored if start
47           is used and another Kate instance already has the given session
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50       -e, --encoding  name
51           Set encoding for the file to open
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53           You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for
54           instance. (The command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which
55           may be helpful to you.)
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57       -l, --line  line
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63       -i, --stdin
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66       -u, --use
67           Use an already running Kate instance; default, only for
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SEE ALSO

71       More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate (either
72       enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kate).
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74       There is also further information available at the Kate website[1].
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EXAMPLES

77       To open a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing
78       Kate window, you could use:
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81           25 -u source.cpp
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83       If you have an active internet connection, you can take advantage of
84       KDE's network transparency to open a file from an ftp site. If you do
85       not have write permission on the remote server, the file will be opened
86       read only and you will be prompted for a local filename to save to if
87       you make changes. If you do have write permission, changes will be
88       saved transparently over the network.
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90           kate ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README
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AUTHORS

93       The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann cullmann@kde.org. A
94       comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the
95       complete user manual mentioned above.
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AUTHOR

98       Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
99           Author.
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NOTES

102        1. the Kate website
103           http://kate-editor.org/
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107K Desktop Environment             2010-10-06                           KATE(1)