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6 kate - Advanced text editor by KDE
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9 kate [-s, --start name] [--startanon] [-n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p,
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14 Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.
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16 Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the
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19 Some of Kate's many features include configurable syntax highlighting
20 for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the
21 ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface
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24 But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open
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26 configuration files. This document was written in Kate.
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30 Start Kate with a given session.
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36 Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if start is used and
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41 If using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if
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45 Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is ignored if start
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66 The files/URLs opened by the application will be deleted after use.
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72 More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate
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89 you make changes. If you do have write permission, changes will be
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92 kate ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README
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95 The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>. A
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