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Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) is a multi-document, multi-view text editor for KDE.

Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) is a multi-document, multi-view text editor for . It supports over 200 filetypes and can be extended through plugins written in and scripts written in .

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How to make Kate remember to always show line numbers?

When I open Kate editor, it doesn't show the line numbers by default. Then I need to go to the View menu and enable the Show Line Numbers option (or press F11) every time I need to have line numbers shown. How to make Kate remember to always show…
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Can Kate automatically convert spaces/tabs?

I got some files have mixed indentation, is there any way I can automatically convert the indentation in Kate?
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How to change the colour of KATE text editor's UI

I have recently downloaded KATE text editor for my kali linux. I love the editor ,but the light UI is a real eyesore. Does anybody know how to make the UI dark like the editor's theme?
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Kate gives out debug messages on the console from which it is started

I am new to Linux. I use Ubuntu 11.04. Whenever I open a file with kate from the commandline, with 'kate &' (or without ampersand), Kate starts out giving messages on the console. It continuously gives them out as I save a file or close one. They…
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Disable KDE sounds in GNOME Ubuntu

I use kate (a KDE text editor) under GNOME in Ubuntu. Since Natty upgrade, it plays miscellaneous sounds on error and other notifications. I disabled sound notifications in GNOME, but kate sounds are still played. Kate itself doesn't seem to have…
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Automatically saving files on edit with kate or any text editor

When I try to edit a file in a remote directory (through SSH, SFTP or FTP) I must close the file to get a dialog box tell me if I want to upload the file. I want to upload it automatically on save! I've already used Konqueror/Dolphin/Krusader as…
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How do I make kate the default text editor in gnome?

I prefer the gnome desktop to KDE - but I prefer the Kate text editor to gedit - but gedit is the default in gnome. How do I set it so that the default application when I double-click a file is Kate?
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How can I tell kate to use CSS highlighting for .less files by default?

How can I tell kate to use CSS highlighting for .less files by default?
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How to do block indentation in kate?

Question is pretty self-explanatory. How to do block indentation in kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor)?
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Create a new directory in KDE Save As dialogue

When using the KDE Save As dialogue, how does one create a new directory using the keyboard only (i.e. no need to grab the mouse)? The Create New Directory button is not readily accessible via TabTabTabTab and then getting back to the Filename…
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How to see what lines have been modified and not commited (git) in kate?

How could I see along my code what lines have been modified but not committed in my git repo, and what lines have been staged? For instance the lines that have been modified but not commited could have a blue bar to their left, and the lines that…
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How do you insert a tab character in Kate?

Tab and Shift+Tab keys are for indenting and unindenting in the "Normal" indentation mode, which is the default. These are fine and do exactly what I want. Occasionally it is useful to insert a literal tab character into the document, but I can't…
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How do I cut a line in KDE Kate?

What is the keyboard shortcut to copy the whole current line to the clipboard and then delete it? This is functionally equivalent to: Home, Shift+↓, Ctrl+X It's a common feature I use often in some text editors, such as: notepad++ Ctrl+L nano…
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kate search/replace with special characters?

Is there any way I can replace something with special character like \n, \t at so on? I can search with regex, and I can even use something like \1 to refer to the group. But I am surprised the \n,\t will be treated literally.
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Count found text on Kate

Notepad++ has this option that lets you count the number of times your search appears in a document (the button "count"). I'm looking for the same thing in Kate, any ideas?
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