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] [-u, --use] [-p, --pid pid] [-e, --encoding
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11            [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]
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DESCRIPTION

15       Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.
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18       Kate  also provides the editor part for various applications, under the
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22       Some of Kate's many features include configurable  syntax  highlighting
23       for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the abil‐
24       ity to create and maintain  projects,  a  multiple  document  interface
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28       But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open sever‐
29       al files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX®'s many  configuration
30       files. This document was written in Kate.
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OPTIONS

34       -s, --start name
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SEE ALSO

67       kwrite(1)
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70       More  detailed  user documentation is available from help:/kate (either
71       enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kate).
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EXAMPLES

79       To  open  a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing
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86       KDE's  network  transparency to open a file from an ftp site. If you do
87       not have write permission on the remote server, the file will be opened
88       read  only  and you will be prompted for a local filename to save to if
89       you make changes. If you do have  write  permission,  changes  will  be
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AUTHORS

96       The  maintainer  of  Kate  is Christoph Cullmann  <cullmann@kde.org>. A
97       comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the com‐
98       plete user manual mentioned above.
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AUTHOR

102       Lauri Watts.
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