If you have ever used a text editor, you will have no problem using Kate. In the next two sections, Starting Kate and Working with Kate, you will find everything you need to get up and running quickly.
You can start Kate from the or from the command line.
Open the TDE program menu by clicking on the big T icon on the toolbar at the bottom left of your screen. This will raise the . Move your cursor up the menu to the -> menu item. A list of available editors will appear. Choose .
Unless you configure Kate not to, it will load the last files you edited. See Configuring Kate to learn how to toggle this feature on and off.
You can start Kate by typing its name on the command line. If you give it a file name, as in the example below, it will open or create that file.
%
kate
myfile.txt
If you have an active connection and permission, you can take advantage of TDE's network transparency to open files on the internet.
%
kate
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdebase/plain/doc/kate/index.docbook
Kate accepts the following command line options:
kate --help
This lists the most basic options available at the command line.
kate
--help-qt
This lists the options available for changing the way Kate interacts with Qt™.
kate --help-tde
This lists the options available for changing the way Kate interacts with TDE.
kate --help-tde-tempfile
This lists the available TDE-tempfile specific options.
kate
--help-all
This lists all of the command line options.
kate
--author
Lists Kate's authors in the terminal window.
kate
-v
--version
Lists version information for Qt™, TDE, and Kate.
kate
--license
Shows license information.
kate
-s
--start
name
Starts kate with the session name
. The session is created
if it does not exist already. If a Kate instance running the specified session
exists, the specified files are loaded in that instance. When used with the
--use
option, an instance running this session will be used as
well.
kate
-u
--use
URL
Causes Kate to use and existing instance if there is one. If you want all documents to open in one kate instance, you can add this option to the default command in your TDE application configuration, as well as create a shell alias in your command intepreter if it supports that.
kate
-f
--force-sdi
If the multiple document interface (MDI) setting is enabled, forces Kate to use the single document interface (SDI) mode.
kate
-p
--pid
PID
Only reuses an instance with the specified PID (Process ID). Used with the
--use
option.
kate
-e
--encoding
encoding
URL
Uses the specified encoding for the document.
kate
-l
--line
line
URL
Navigates to the specified line after opening the document.
kate
-c
--column
column
URL
Navigates to the specified column after opening the document.
kate
-i
--stdin
Reads the document content from STDIN. This
is similar to the common option -
used in many command line
programs, and allows you to pipe command output into Kate.
kate
--tempfile
Since Kate 2.5.1 this standard TDE option is supported. When used, the specified files are treated as temporary files and deleted (if they are local files and you have sufficient permissions) when closed, unless they are modified since they were opened.
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