Kate

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

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text editor for the kde desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. it is extensible with plugins. features a mdi interface.

kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the kwrite editing widget of kde, offering all the features of that plus a bunch of its own. kate has been been moved to the kdesdk package in kde4, and is a builtin part of your favorite desktop since release 2.2.

being a native kde application, kate is of course born with networking transparency, as well as it integrates with the outstanding features of kde. choose it for viewing html sources from konqueror, editing configuration files, writing new applications or any other text editing task. you still need just one running instance of kate.

with a multiview editor like kate you get a lot of advantages. you can view several instances of the same document and all instances are synced. or you can view more files at the same time for easy reference or simultaneous editing. the terminal emulation and sidebar are docked windows that can be plugged out of the main window, or replaced therein according to your preference.

a windows version is available along with kde for windows @ http://windows.kde.org/ .

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Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Code formatting

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The Best Kate alternatives for Tabbed interface, from Syntax Highlighting to a Support for regular expressions.
Alternatives in Kate for Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, MacPorts, Cygwin, Windows, Android, Go (Programming Language), Total Commander, Chrome OS, Web, Chrome, Node.JS. This list contains a total of 105 applications similar to Kate.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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