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Kate is an advanced text editor for programmers.

Kate is a text editor for programmers. It is part of the KDE community. Kate has syntax highlighting for more than 200 file types and supports file-specific indenting and folding rules.

Kate has a Vi input mode that support most basic Vi commands and Vim extensions such as text objects.

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How do I configure Kate to automatically detect spaces/tabs indentation?

I mess with software written by completely unrelated groups of people, and it all uses completely different indentation standards. I'm okay with having to set the indentation width, but there's nothing more annoying than opening up a file with tabs,…
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Haskell: ctags (and Kate editor)

I tried CTags plugin for Kate editor. It kinda works, index builds silently (no error messages), database file along with the necessary menu entries appears. Then Go to definition - No hits found. I am not surprised too much. Apparently, Kate builds…
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find and replace regex

I need find and replace the numbers (of footnotes) find "14" and replace with "[14]" With regular expression, both in kate and sigil, I can find the digits: so: find = \d\d But I cannot find the way to replace digits: not works: replace =…
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Kate External Tools plugin missing

I have installed Kate Editor (with KWrite, which installs some plugins) in Ubuntu 15.04, and I have just realized that the Kate External Tools plugin is missing since version 4.8. I really need this plugin, and if anyone could show me where to find…
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how to undu split vertical in kate?

is there a keyboard shortcut? (split vertical is ctrl-shift-L) -http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=veuviqxg4q2xtqi4&number=2
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Workflow: Working with git and sandbox on linux

I'am a linux users and web developer. Actually I'm using KDE as desktop environment and Kate as IDE. I'm working for a company and we're using remote sandbox for development. This is my actual workflow: Connect to remote sandbox via sftp using…
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kate (ubuntu 16.04) does not have tab plugin

I previously used kate on Ubuntu 14.04 which worked quite well. After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, however, the tab plugin just disappeared. So if I have just a few source files opened it becomes hard to navigate between them. How can the tab plugin…
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kate editor: highlighting configuration for doxygen files

Kate editor (and QtCreator too) uses the same xml configs for the highlighting a syntax of the files. e.g. doxygen however ,it looks oddly for me because of: The file under the link above - doxygen.xml, does this refer to doxygen sources (I mean…
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kate editor, shortcut to close/move current tab

kate editor (default kate package on Ubuntu 14.04) Is there a shortcut to close current tab (from multi-tab plugin)? Is there a way to move around tabs (move current tab forward/backward relative to other tabs)?
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In search of a good and customisable IDE, Is eclipse is the ultimate one?

I am using GNU/Linux (Ubuntu + Gnome). I have been using netbeans on windows since a long time and on Linux I prefer to use vi or emacs. Now my problem is I want to totally migrate into Linux for all my development works but i have seen that…
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Middle click paste at cursor position in GUI programs

In most terminal applications (e.g. Konsole) one can select text with the mouse. A middle click will then pastes it at the current cursor position. The same happens when pasting with Shift+Ctrl+V. In most GUI text editors (e.g. Kate) one can select…
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Kate Editor shortcut to Focus/Defocus terminal doesn't work

I'm using Kate as the editor for some programs (Octave and sometimes MySQL). I really like Kate's functionality, at the moment I've really exploited the link between the editor and the terminal. I have changed some shortcuts to fit my needs as I…
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How to install kate5

I tried to install the latest version of kde editor kate, but nothing changed. I took the source code: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kate; I followed http://kate-editor.org/get-it/'s instructions; Now, when I run ~/kde/usr/bin/kate-v is the same…
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Kate Cmake error

I am trying to build Kate on Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1 64-bit. I downloaded Kate source code and tried to install it according to http://kate-editor.org/get-it/. Now while trying to compile, I am getting cmake error. CMake Error: The following…
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Kate (text editor) indentation, c++

I use the kate text editor for writing c++ code. I really like the editor except for its indentation behavior which drives me mad. I have the following problem: If I want to write code like if( true ) { //code } the indentation messes…
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