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] [-n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p,
10            --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column
11            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.
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35       -n, --new
36           Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if start is used and
37           another Kate instance already has the given session opened), forced
38           if no parameters and no URLs are given at all.
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40       -b, --block
41           If using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if
42           URLs given to open.
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44       -p, --pid  pid
45           Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is ignored if start
46           is used and another Kate instance already has the given session
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49       -e, --encoding  name
50           Set encoding for the file to open.
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52           You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for
53           instance. (The command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which
54           may be helpful to you.)
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56       -l, --line  line
57           Navigate to this line.
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62       -i, --stdin
63           Read the contents of stdin.
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65       --tempfile
66           The files/URLs opened by the application will be deleted after use.
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68       file
69           File to open.
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SEE ALSO

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

80       To open a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing
81       Kate window, you could use:
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83           kate -c 15 -l 25 source.cpp
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85       If you have an active internet connection, you can take advantage of
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
90       saved transparently over the network.
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92           kate ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README
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AUTHORS

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

100       Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
101           Author.
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NOTES

104        1. Kate website
105           https://kate-editor.org/
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