Kate
Powerful text editor
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.)
- Plugin architecture for the application and editor component
- Customizable shortcuts
- Integrated command line
- Scriptable using JavaScript
Kate is a powerful text editor that can open multiple files simultaneously. . With a built-in terminal, syntax highlighting, and tabbed sidebar, it performs as a lightweight but capable development environment. Kate's many tools, plugins, and scripts make it highly customizable. . Kate's features include: .
- Multiple saved sessions, each with numerous files
- Scriptable syntax highlighting, indentation, and code-folding
- Configurable templates and text snippets
- Symbol viewers for C, C++, and Python
- XML completion and validation
How to install Kate in Ubuntu
If you are on a supported distro, you can install the application through software center by clicking the below link.
If the above link not working, run the below command in terminal to install kate in Ubuntu
sudo apt install kate
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