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+<chapter id="plugins">
+
+<chapterinfo>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author>
+<author>&tde-authors;</author>
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</authorgroup>
+</chapterinfo>
+
+<title>Working with Plugins</title>
+
+<para>Kate is using two different forms of plugins, namely plugins for the
+&kate; application and plugins for the &kate; editor component. The latter are
+available to any application using the editor component, such as KDevelop,
+Quanta, Kile, KWrite and many others, while application plugins are specific
+to the &kate; application.</para>
+
+<para>You can enable both types of plugins in the <link
+linkend="configuring-kate-configdialog">configuration dialog</link>, which also
+provides access to additional configuration options for plugins that requires
+that.</para>
+
+<para>There are many plugins for various purposes available in the <emphasis>tdeaddons</emphasis>
+module, and you can search the web for more. A few plugins are shipped with the
+editor component, for doing word completion, insert files,
+thesaurus and word spell checking and incremental search.</para>
+
+<para>You can find additional information about some of &kate;'s plugins in
+<emphasis>The Kate Plugins Handbook</emphasis> accessible from
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guimenuitem>Plugins Handbook</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
+if the <emphasis>tdeaddons</emphasis> module has been installed on your system</para>
+
+</chapter>