KATE(1) 							 KDE User's Manual							   KATE(1)

NAME

       kate - Advanced text editor for KDE

SYNOPSIS

       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]

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 configura-
       tion files. This document was written in Kate.

OPTIONS

       -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 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

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: http://kate.kde.org/.

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_FIRST

AUTHORS

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

AUTHOR

       Lauri Watts.

K Desktop Environment						   June 07, 2005							   KATE(1)