<chapter id="plugins"> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> </chapterinfo> <title>Working with Plug-ins</title> <para>Kate is using two different forms of plug-ins, namely plug-ins for the &kate; application and plug-ins 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 plug-ins are specific to the &kate; application.</para> <para>You can enable both types of plug-ins in the <link linkend="configuring-kate-configdialog">configuration dialog</link>, which also provides access to additional configuration options for plug-ins that requires that.</para> <para>There are many plugins for various purposes available in the tdeaddons module, and you can search the web for more. A few plugins are shipped with the editor component, for doing word completion, automatic bookmarks, insert files, thesaurus and word spell checking and incremental search.</para> </chapter>