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kate-26.04.3

KDE advanced text editor

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Description

Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some prelimentary scripting support. Features: - MDI, window splitting, window tabbing - Spell checking - CR, CRLF, LF newline support - Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc.) - Encoding conversion - Regular expression based find & replace - Powerful syntax highlighting and bracket matching - Code and text folding - Infinite undo/redo support - Block selection mode - Auto indentation - Auto completion support - Shell integration - Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.) using kioslaves - Plugin architecture for the application and editor component - Customizable shortcuts - Integrated command line - Scriptable using JavaScript

Package information

Ports path
x11/kde-applications/kate
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Rafael Sadowski <rsadowski@openbsd.org>
Categories
editors, x11/kde-applications
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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