]> &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail; June 07, 2005 Trinity Desktop Environment kate 1 kate Advanced text editor for &tde; kate -s, --start name -u, --use -p, --pid pid -e, --encoding name -l, --line line -c, --column column -i, --stdin KDE Generic Options Qt Generic Options &kate; is the &tde; 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. -u, --use Use an already running &kate; -p, --pid pid Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid -e, --encoding name Set encoding for the file to openYou 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 kwrite(1) 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. 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 &tde;'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_FIRST 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.