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Kate - text editor (64-bit only)
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:12 pm
by webfork
Kate is a cross-platform text editor. I didn't really see much interesting here, just posting for anyone else who might look into it.
Steps: Download the 7z file from
https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Win ... ase_win64/ and extract. Launch bin\kate.exe
Status: not portable, writes to \AppData\Local\kate\
Homepage:
https://kate-editor.org/
Screenshot:
https://kate-editor.org/images/kate-win ... BZGOSu.png
Re: Kate - text editor (64-bit only)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:15 am
by webfork
No changes on the portability front but this program has been seeing active updates (currently with release 20.12.1) since I first tested ~10 months ago and some of the detailed updates are very encouraging, in particular the find function has a lot in common with what I love about dnGrep:
https://kate-editor.org/post/2021/2021- ... uary-2021/
Also the program has evidently been in development for 20 years now
https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020- ... e-in-2020/
Impressive stuff.
Re: Kate - text editor (64-bit only)
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:26 pm
by Midas
I think Kate is the default text editor of most KDE based Linux distros, hence the long-term development...
Re: Kate - text editor (64-bit only)
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:17 pm
by rbon
Midas wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:26 pm
I think
Kate is the default text editor of most KDE based Linux distros, hence the long-term development...
I confirm.
• KDE web site:
https://kde.org/
• KDE Applications -> Kate page:
https://apps.kde.org/en/kate
Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some preliminary scripting support.
Features:
• MDI, window splitting, window tabbing
• Spell checking
• CR, CRLF, LF newline support
• Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc.)
• Encoding conversion
• Regular expression based find & replace
• Powerful syntax highlighting and bracket matching
• Code and text folding
• Infinite undo/redo support
• Block selection mode
• Auto indentation
• Auto completion support
• Shell integration
• Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.) using kioslaves
• Plugin architecture for the application and editor component
• Customizable shortcuts
• Integrated command line
• Scriptable using JavaScript
Re: Kate - text editor (64-bit only)
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:50 pm
by Midas
Some further testing...
Package '
kate-20.12.1-1159-windows-msvc2019_64-cl.7z' (~51MB) downloaded from:
Traces: two folders at '
%LOCALAPPDATA%' ('
cache' and '
kate'; settings in the later in a plain text file named '
anonymous.katesession'); registry keys at '
HKCU\Software\KDE' and '
HKCU\Software\kde.org'.
Final disk cost is a whopping 264MB. I think I'll pass on this one.
