New¶

Opens a new an empty unnamed document.

Open¶

Opens a file dialog to select a file to be opened.

Save¶

Saves the current status of the file. If the save path is not yet specified, the "Save as ..." dialog is opened.

Save as...¶

A storage location to save the file to can be selected here via a file dialog.

Reload¶

Reloads the current file. All changes are discarded.

Close¶

Closes the active window.

Quit¶

Closes the editor. If there is a file open that has not yet been saved, the Save dialog will be opened first.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all¶

Text can be selected using the arrow keys while holding down the Shift key. The entire text can be selected with Select all. This selected text can then be copied using Copy or cut using Cut. With Paste, this text can be inserted again at the current cursor position. If there is text in the clipboard before copying (or cutting), it will be replaced.

These functions use an internal clipboard that contains different content than the clipboard used in the terminal as copy and paste commands, as the editor cannot access the system clipboard.

Delete Line¶

Deletes the entire line.

Select Mode¶

Toggles the selection mode to allow selecting text in terminals where marking with Shift + arrow keys does not work.

Undo, Redo¶

With Undo or CTRL + z, edits can be undone. With Redo or CTRL + y the undo can be undone again.

Search¶

Use Search or Ctrl + f to open the search dialog. Enter a search term in the "Find" field. You can refine the search using the options. If live search is activated, the first matching result is automatically selected while the search term is being entered. If the text document is active, you can press F3 to jump to the next result or Shift + F3 to jump to the previous result.

Search Next¶

Jump to the next match for the current search term.

Search Previous¶

Jump to the previous match for the current search term.

Replace¶

With Replace or CTRL + r the Replace dialog is opened. Enter a search term in the "Find" field. In the field "Replace" the word to be inserted is specified. "Next" jumps to the next match for the current search term. With "Replace" the current match is replaced. With "All" all occurrences of the search term are replaced at once.

Insert Character...¶

Opens a dialog in which a character code (Unicode codepoint) of a special character to be inserted can be entered.

Goto¶

To jump to a line, open a Goto Line dialog under "Goto".

Sort Selected Lines¶

Sort the selected lines (lexicographical by code-point).

Tab settings¶

Opens the Tab settings dialog. Here the settings for a tab can be made. You can choose between tab (\t) and space. You can also set the width of the indention. The default settings can also be set in the ~/.config/chr file. Here you can specify: "tabsize=8" or "tab=false" for spaces.

Line Number¶

Shows the line number on the left side of the editor. The default settings can also be made in the ~/.config/chr file. Here you can specify: "line_number=true".

Formatting¶

In the Formatting dialog, "Formatting Characters", "Color Tabs" and "Color Spacs at end of line" can be switched on and off.

The "Formatting characters" marks spaces with a dot: "·" end of line (\n) with a "¶" and the end of the file with: "♦".

With "Color Tabs" tabs are colorized. The tab border is made darker.

"Color Spaces at end of line" is used to spaces mark at the end of the line in red.

In the configuration file: ~/.config/chr the behavior can be influenced with the option "formatting_characters=true", "color_tabs=true", "color_space_end=true".

Wrap long lines¶

Selects if lines that are wider than the window are displayed clipped or wrapped.. It can be wrapped at the word boundary or hard at the end of the line. This behavior can be influenced by the option "wrap_lines=WordWrap" or "wrap_lines=WrapAnywhere" in the ~/.config/chr file.

In addition, the option "Display Right Margin at Column" can be used to specify a numerical value above which the background color is darkened. This value can also be set with the configuration option: "right_margin_hint=80" in ~/.config/chr.

Stop Input Pipe¶

Reading from a pipe is interrupted. The standard input file descriptor is closed.

Highlight Brackets¶

If active and the cursor is on a bracket the bracket at the cursor position and the matching other bracket are highlighted. The following opening and closing brackets can be highlighted when the cursor moves over them. With the option "highlight_bracket=true" this behavior can be influenced in the ~/.config/chr. Supported bracket types are: [{(<>)}].

Syntax Highlighting¶

If the editor has been compiled with the "SyntaxHighlighting" feature, syntax highlighting is generally available. The language is automatically detected when a file is opened and displayed in the status bar. If required, it can also be switched on and off or adjusted via the syntax highlighting dialog. Syntax highlighting can also be deactivated in this dialog.

The theme can be customized via the command line switch "--syntax-highlighting-theme". The editor comes with the themes "chr-bluebg" and "chr-blackbg". If required, a theme from the list that can be displayed with "kate-syntax-highlighter --list-themes" can be used. With the option "syntax_highlighting_theme=chr-bluebg" the theme can be set in ~/.config/chr.

Syntax highlighting can be switched off via the command line using "--disable-syntax" when the editor is started. With the option "disable_syntax=true" the theme can be set in ~/.config/chr.

Theme¶

It opens the dialog for selecting a theme. The Classic (blue) or the Dark (black and white) mode is available. With the option "theme=classic" or "theme=dark", this can be set in the ~/.config/chr.

Next, Previous¶

Switches the active window, with Shift in reverse order. (See F6)

Tile Vertically, Horizontally, Fullscreen¶

Selects how multiple open documents are shown.

Vertical and horizontal distribute the available space across the documents. When Fullscreen is selected only one document is shown at once. (See F6)

eat_space_before_tabs¶

This option is only active if tab=false is set.

If this option is active and the Tab key is pressed while the cursor is in the indentation at the beginning of a line, the indentation is extended to the next tab position.

attributes_file¶

Specifies the path of the file in which the cursor and scroll position of files opened in the past is saved.