]> &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail; 2021-07-12 KDE Gear 21.08 KDE Gear kate 1 kate Advanced text editor by &kde; kate -s, --start name --startanon --new-session -n, --new -b, --block -p, --pid pid -e, --encoding name -l, --line line -c, --column column -i, --stdin --tempfile file &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;. -s, --start name Start &kate; with a given session. --startanon Start &kate; with a new anonymous session, implies -n (deprecated). --new-session 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. --tempfile The files/&URL;s opened by the application will be deleted after use. file File to open. More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate (either enter this &URL; into &konqueror;, or run khelpcenter help:/kate). kf5options(7) qt5options(7) There is also further information available at the &kate; website. 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 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 &kde-ftp;README The maintainer of &kate; is &Christoph.Cullmann; &Christoph.Cullmann.mail;. A comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the complete user manual mentioned above.