Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) is a text editor that is part of the KDE project.
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How to switch text direction to rtl & ltr in kate and kwrite
How can I switch the text direction in kate and kwrite editors?
I have English & Persian layouts and want to read the Persian text as right to left but I can't seem to be able to switch the ...
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How can I recover after Kate crashes?
I use Kate for coding and note-taking. Sometimes it crashes - often when I've got a lot open - and unsaved 'real' documents (eg, ones backed by files, that have been saved at some point) usually have ...
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Kate editor: how to jump to modified lines?
Say I'm editing a long document and I have made a number of changes. I want to be able to jump to each changed line. Is there a way to do this?
I know about line modification indicators and I have ...
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problems with tab order in Kate
I use the standard Tab Bar plugin in Kate v3.8.5 on Fedora 16 and when I rearrange my tabs with my mouse (haven't found a way to do it with the keyboard), and then switch tabs with Alt+Left and ...
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Kate vs VIM/Emacs regarding speed [closed]
I'm trying to learn C++ in school using a UNIX environment and our professor urges us to use VIM or Emacs because a GUI is disadvantageous for two reasons:
Moving your hands off the keyboard and ...
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How to turn off lines under entire text in Kate editor?
After a recent upgrade on Kubuntu, Kate editor (v3.8.5) shows odd lines under the entire text of previously created simple text files. New files usually have only the first line underlined. Maybe if I ...
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How can I run my own scripts in kate 3.8.2? “External tools” isn't available in the plugins section
I am using Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. How can I run my own scripts in kate 3.8.2?
It appears that the plugin named External tools is no longer available.
I would like to run Python or shell scripts in kate ...
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Where to get Kate color schemes?
Does anyone know where one could find some good Kate color schemes for syntax highlighting?
The only ones that I found that work fine are zenburn and mdark.
Besides those two, I couldn't find ...
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How to install color schemas for Kate running on GNOME
How do I install schemas(like this one; for syntax highlighting, etc) for Kate (which is originally for KDE) running on GNOME 3? Trying to install with the install.sh script took no effect. Also, if ...
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How can I install KateSql plugin on ubuntu?
I am slightly new to Ubuntu and I just installed kate by typing sudo apt-get install kate. Now I want to install this kate sql plugin and google is not helping me. I downloaded a punch of files from ...
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How does one find and replace text in all open files with kate?
How does one find and replace text in all open files with kate?
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Big tab spacings with Kate
Is there a way to configure Kate to use tab spaces of more than 16 spaces? I am using Kate to make up a tab separated file for import into a database and some of the data needs about 30 spaces between ...
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How to configure Kate to always use 2 spaces for tabulation?
By default Kate inserts 2 spaces on Tab press but switches to real tabs starting from the fourth Tab level. Can I disable this and use spaces always, regardless to the depth?
I want this because I ...
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Can I set up Kate to always fold (collapse) all foldable regions when opening a code file?
I'd like to set up Kate so that, if I open, for example, a C++ file, all classes it contains are folded? But not only the root levels, when I unfold a class, I'd like methods inside it to be initially ...
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How to set up Kate to use Nautilus as a file manager?
I use Gnome-based Ubuntu 10.10 and Kate text editor.
If I right-click on a folder in Kate's file system navigation panel and choose to open the folder in a file manager, Filelight (a disk space ...
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How to change background color of side pane of Kate and Kile?
I am trying to customize the color scheme of Kile/Kate. I could do it, except I could not find any way to change the color of the side pane such as files, etc.
I prefer dark background, and having ...
