Kate

Categories: Development | Utilities Other platforms: Windows

Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some preliminary scripting support.

Features:

MDI, window splitting, window tabbing
Spell checking
CR, CRLF, LF newline support
Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc.)
Encoding conversion
Regular expression based find & replace
Powerful syntax highlighting and bracket matching
Code and text folding
Infinite undo/redo support
Block selection mode
Auto indentation
Auto completion support
Shell integration
Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.) using kioslaves
Plugin architecture for the application and editor component
Customizable shortcuts
Integrated command line
Scriptable using JavaScript

Install on

Linux

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Kate Windows installers are also available to download from the binary-factory. These versions don’t contain the translations and are intended for testing purpose. Get involved and help us make them better!

Stable version. Generated from the latest version of the stable branch. Contains the latest bugfixes.
Unstable version. Generated from the latest version of the development branch.