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NAME

       kate - Advanced text editor for KDE

SYNOPSIS

       kate [-s, --start name] [--startanon] [-n, --new] [-b, --block] [-p, --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column
	    column] [-i, --stdin] [-u, --use] [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]

DESCRIPTION

       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(R)'s many
       configuration files. This document was written in Kate.

OPTIONS

       -s, --start name
	   Start Kate with a given session.

       --startanon
	   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

       -u, --use
	   Use an already running Kate instance; default, only for compatibility

SEE ALSO

       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[1].

EXAMPLES

       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 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 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/README

AUTHORS

       The maintainer of Kate is Christoph Cullmann cullmann@kde.org. A comprehensive list of authors and contributors is available in the
       complete user manual mentioned above.

AUTHOR

       Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
	   Author.

NOTES

	1. the Kate website
	   http://kate-editor.org/

K Desktop Environment						    2010-10-06								   KATE(1)