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<chapter id="plugins">

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<authorgroup>
<author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author>
<author>&tde-authors;</author>
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</chapterinfo>

<title>Working with Plugins</title>

<para>Kate is using two different forms of plugins, namely plugins for the
&kate; application and plugins for the &kate; editor component. The latter are
available to any application using the editor component, such as KDevelop,
Quanta, Kile, KWrite and many others, while application plugins are specific
to the &kate; application.</para>

<para>You can enable both types of plugins in the <link
linkend="configuring-kate-configdialog">configuration dialog</link>, which also
provides access to additional configuration options for plugins that requires
that.</para>

<para>There are many plugins for various purposes available in the tdeaddons
module, and you can search the web for more. A few plugins are shipped with the
editor component, for doing word completion, automatic bookmarks, insert files,
thesaurus and word spell checking and incremental search.</para>

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