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KATE(1) | KDE User's Manual | KATE(1) |
NAME¶
kate - Advanced text editor for KDESYNOPSIS¶
kate [-s, --start name]
[--startanon] [ -n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p,
--pid pid] [-e, --encoding name]
[-l, --line line] [-c, --column column]
[-i, --stdin] [-u, --use] [KDE Generic Options]
[Qt Generic Options]
DESCRIPTION¶
Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor. Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the name KWrite. Some of Kate's many features include configurable syntax highlighting for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface (MDI), and a self-contained terminal emulator. But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open several files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX®'s many configuration files. This document was written in Kate.OPTIONS¶
-s, --start nameStart Kate with a given session.
--startanon
Start Kate with a new anonymous session, implies
-n.
-n, --new
Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if
start is used and another Kate instance already has the given session
opened), forced if no parameters and no URLs are given at all.
-b, --block
If using an already running Kate instance, block until it
exits, if URLs given to open.
-p, --pid pid
Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is
ignored if start is used and another Kate instance already has the
given session opened).
-e, --encoding name
Set encoding for the file to open
You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for instance. (The
command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which may be helpful to
you.)
-l, --line line
Navigate to this line
-c, --column column
Navigate to this column
-i, --stdin
Read the contents of stdin
-u, --use
Use an already running Kate instance; default, only for
compatibility
SEE ALSO¶
More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kate). There is also further information available at the Kate website[1].EXAMPLES¶
To open a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing Kate window, you could use:kate -c 15 -l 25 -u source.cpp
AUTHORS¶
The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann<cullmann@kde.org>. A comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the complete user manual mentioned above.AUTHOR¶
Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>Author.
NOTES¶
- 1.
- the Kate website
2010-10-06 | K Desktop Environment |