If you have ever used a text editor, you will have no problem using Kate. In the next two sections, Starting Kate and in Working with Kate, we'll show you everything you need to get up and running quickly.
You can start Kate from the or from the command line.
Open the KDE program menu by clicking on the big K 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 KDE's network transparency to open files on the internet.
%
kate
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README_FIRST
Kate accepts 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-kde
This lists the options available for changing the way Kate interacts with KDE.
kate
--help-all
This lists all of the command line options.
kate
--author
Lists Kate's authors in the terminal window.
kate
--version
Lists version information for Qt™, KDE, and Kate. Also available
through kate
-V
kate
--license
Shows license information.