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kate(1)

NAME

   kate - Advanced text editor for KDE

SYNOPSIS

   kate [-s, --start name] [--startanon] [-n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p,
        --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column
        column] [-i, --stdin] [--tempfile] [-h, --help] [-v, --version]
        [--author] [--license] [file]

DESCRIPTION

   Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.

   Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the
   name KWrite.

   Some of Kate's many features include configurable syntax highlighting
   for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the
   ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface
   (MDI), and a self-contained terminal emulator.

   But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open
   several files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX's many
   configuration files. This document was written in Kate.

OPTIONS

   -s, --start name
       Start Kate with a given session.

   --startanon
       Start Kate with a new anonymous session, implies -n.

   -n, --new
       Force start of a new Kate instance (is ignored if start is used and
       another Kate instance already has the given session opened), forced
       if no parameters and no URLs are given at all.

   -b, --block
       If using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if
       URLs given to open.

   -p, --pid  pid
       Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid (is ignored if start
       is used and another Kate instance already has the given session
       opened).

   -e, --encoding  name
       Set encoding for the file to open

       You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for
       instance. (The command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which
       may be helpful to you.)

   -l, --line  line
       Navigate to this line

   -c, --column  column
       Navigate to this column

   -i, --stdin
       Read the contents of stdin

   --tempfile
       The files/URLs opened by the application will be deleted after use

   -h --help
       This lists the options available at the command line

   --author
       Lists Kate's authors in the terminal window

   -v --version
       Lists version information for Kate

   --license
       Shows license information

   file
       File to open

EXAMPLES

   To open a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing
   Kate window, you could use:

       kate -c 15 -l
       25 -u source.cpp

   If you have an active internet connection, you can take advantage of
   KDE's network transparency to open a file from an ftp site. If you do
   not have write permission on the remote server, the file will be opened
   read only and you will be prompted for a local filename to save to if
   you make changes. If you do have write permission, changes will be
   saved transparently over the network.

       kate ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README

AUTHORS

   The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>. A
   comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the
   complete user manual mentioned above.

AUTHOR

   Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
       Author.

NOTES

    1. the Kate website
       http://kate-editor.org/

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