.TH KATE 1 "May 2006" .SH NAME kate \- TDE Advanced Text Editor .SH SYNOPSIS .B kate .RI [ options ] [file(s)] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B kate command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBkate\fP is a powerful text editor for TDE. It allows multiple documents (MDI interface), syntax coloration for many languages, ... It is able to expand or collapse parts of code (C functions, ...), can handle complete projects, and includes a terminal emulator. Kate is primarily intended for developers but can be used by anyone. It will for example be very useful to edit configuration files for example. It can handle plugins to expand its capabilities (more languages support, vim/Emacs compatibility, ...) .SH OPTIONS These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. .TP .B \-\-help Show summary of options. .TP .B \-\-help\-qt Show QT specific help (common for all QT apps). .TP .B \-\-help\-tde Show TDE specific help (common for all TDE apps). .TP .B \-\-help\-all Show the complete help. .TP .B \-\-author Show program author(s). .TP .B \-\-license Show program license. .TP .B \-v, \-\-version Show version of program. .TP .B \-s, \-\-start <name> Start Kate with a given session .TP .B \-u, \-\-use Use a already running kate instance (if possible) .TP .B \-p, \-\-pid <pid> Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid .TP .B \-e, \-\-encoding <name> Set encoding for the file to open .TP .B \-l, \-\-line <line> Navigate to this line .TP .B \-c, \-\-column <column> Navigate to this column .TP .B \-i, \-\-stdin Read the contents of stdin .TP .B file(s) is the file or the files to open .SH SEE ALSO .BR kwrite (1) .PP For more details, you should have a look at the TDE Help center, available from the T menu. .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Clement Stenac <zorglub@via.ecp.fr>, for Debian GNU/Linux, but may be used by others. .PP kate was written by the KDE project