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Kate - Advanced Text Editor
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 prelimentary 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
Developed By
Authors:
- Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>
Maintainer
http://www.babylon2k.de - Anders Lund <anders@alweb.dk>
Core Developer
http://www.alweb.dk - Joseph Wenninger <jowenn@kde.org>
Core Developer
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9925371 - Hamish Rodda <rodda@kde.org>
Core Developer - Dominik Haumann <dhdev@gmx.de>
Developer & Highlight wizard - Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
The cool buffersystem - Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
The Editing Commands - Matt Newell <newellm@proaxis.com>
Testing, ... - Michael Bartl <michael.bartl1@chello.at>
Former Core Developer - Michael McCallum <gholam@xtra.co.nz>
Core Developer - Jochen Wilhemly <digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de>
KWrite Author - Michael Koch <koch@kde.org>
KWrite port to KParts - Christian Gebauer <gebauer@kde.org>
- Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>
- Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>
KWrite Undo History, Kspell integration - Scott Manson <sdmanson@alltel.net>
KWrite XML Syntax highlighting support - John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh@kde.org>
Patches and more
Thanks To:
- Matteo Merli <merlim@libero.it>
Highlighting for RPM Spec-Files, Perl, Diff and more - Rocky Scaletta <rocky@purdue.edu>
Highlighting for VHDL - Yury Lebedev
Highlighting for SQL - Chris Ross
Highlighting for Ferite - Nick Roux
Highlighting for ILERPG - Carsten Niehaus
Highlighting for LaTeX - Per Wigren
Highlighting for Makefiles, Python - Jan Fritz
Highlighting for Python - Daniel Naber
- Roland Pabel
Highlighting for Scheme - Cristi Dumitrescu
PHP Keyword/Datatype list - Carsten Pfeiffer
Very nice help - All people who have contributed and I have forgotten to mention
License
LGPL_V2.