Kate

Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor), the big sister of text editing applications

Kate has all the features of KWrite, and much more. It is a multi-document or multi-view editor, which means that you can have several documents open at the same time, or you can have several views of the same document.

Document modification monitoring gives you ample warning of danger.

History

The development of Kate started in fall 2001 by Christoph Cullmann. The first release was as part of the KDE Software Compilation 2.2. By July 2014 Kate started being ported to KF5.

Features

Kate's many features include

Multi-Document Interface
Window tabbing and window splitting
Character encoding support and conversion
Syntax highlighting and bracket matching
Code and text folding
Auto-indentation
Auto-completing
Block selection
Regular Expression find and replace
Scriptable using JavaScript
Project support documented here

and much more!

Visit the project pages for more information

FAQ

Where did Kate go?: It is often thought that Kate is missing, as it is usually not listed in distribution repositories. In fact, it is now part of a larger development package, so you must install kdesdk.

How can I print out with Line Numbers?: In the Print dialog click on the Options button, choose the Text Settings tab and tick the Print line numbers box.