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]
[-u, --use]
[KDE Generic Options]
[Qt Generic Options]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
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
source
function kate {
apt-get install -y kate
}
source
How can I tell kate to use CSS highlighting for .less files by default?
The syntax highlighting definition files are located at:
~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax/
/usr/share/kde4/apps/katepart/syntax/
Editing files in the first directory requires root permissions,
and the syntax highlighting file will be available to every kate
user in your environment. When the directory does not exist,
create it in order to place the file.
Find the <language> tag, and modify the
extensions attribute, as follows:
<language name="CSS" ... extensions="*.css" ... >
<language name="CSS" ... extensions="*.css;*.less" ... >
Instead of modifying css.xml, I recommend to
get the definition file for less css, so that
less-syntax is also highlighted correctly. See mtorromeo / kate-syntax-files / less.xml on GitHub.
Copy-paste the following commands, then restart Kate.
mkdir -p ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax
wget https://raw.github.com/mtorromeo/kate-syntax-files/master/less.xml
source
Kate gives out debug messages on the console from which it is started
Debug messages are usually written to the standard error, which
is the filehandle denoted by 2 in the console. You can redirect
that without affecting output to the standard out (file handle
1), by starting your application like this
kate 2>/dev/null
You can append the & if you'd like as well.
The number 2 here represents file handle 2, the >
is a redirection operator in the shell, /dev/null is
a "blackhole" device -- it eats up everything that is written to
it, so it "disappears" (does not appear in console).
You can capture the standard error output by replacing
/dev/null with a filename. In that case the output
goes to the file, not to the console.
In case the application is writing debug messages to the standard
output, you can replace the number 2 with number 1 (see above) --
note that in this case normal messages are going to be redirected
as well.
You can redirect both standard out and error at the same time,
the easiest way to do so is
kate 2>&1 1>/dev/null
Here the &1 denotes the file handle 1 where
standard error should be redirected. The use of & is
to differentiate it from the file named 1.
For further info on redirection, read the manual of your shell
(e.g. bash)
source
Kate changes inode
Looks like a known bug in Kate, and one that won't be fixed.
(Bug status is RESOLVED WONTFIX)
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
-u,
--use
Use an already running Kate
instance; default, only for compatibility
notes
1.
the Kate website
http://kate-editor.org/
see also
More detailed
user documentation is available from
help:/kate
(either enter this URL into Konqueror,
or run khelpcenter help:/kate).
There
is also further information available at
the Kate website
[1]
.
authors
Lauri
Watts <lauri[:at:]kde[:dot:]org>
Author.
The
maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann cullmann[:at:]kde[:dot:]org. A
comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available
in the complete user manual mentioned above.