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

6       kate - Advanced text editor by KDE
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SYNOPSIS

9       kate [-s, --start name] [--startanon] [--new-session] [-n, --new] [-b,
10            --block] [-p, --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line]
11            [-c, --column column] [-i, --stdin] [--tempfile] [file]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.
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16       Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the
17       name KWrite.
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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
22       (MDI), and a self-contained terminal emulator.
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24       But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open
25       several files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX®'s many
26       configuration files. This document was written in Kate.
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OPTIONS

29       -s, --start name
30           Start Kate with a given session.
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32       --startanon
33           Start Kate with a new anonymous session, implies -n (deprecated).
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35       --new-session
36           Start Kate with a new anonymous session, implies -n.
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38       -n, --new
39           Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if start is used and
40           another Kate instance already has the given session opened), forced
41           if no parameters and no URLs are given at all.
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43       -b, --block
44           If using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if
45           URLs given to open.
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47       -p, --pid  pid
48           Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is ignored if start
49           is used and another Kate instance already has the given session
50           opened).
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52       -e, --encoding  name
53           Set encoding for the file to open.
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55           You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for
56           instance. (The command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which
57           may be helpful to you.)
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59       -l, --line  line
60           Navigate to this line.
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62       -c, --column  column
63           Navigate to this column.
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65       -i, --stdin
66           Read the contents of stdin.
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68       --tempfile
69           The files/URLs opened by the application will be deleted after use.
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71       file
72           File to open.
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SEE ALSO

75           More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate
76           (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter
77           help:/kate).
78           kf5options(7)
79           qt5options(7)
80           There is also further information available at the Kate website[1].
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EXAMPLES

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

98       The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>. A
99       comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the
100       complete user manual mentioned above.
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AUTHOR

103       Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
104           Author.
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NOTES

107        1. Kate website
108           https://kate-editor.org/
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