Kate

Advanced text editor

Development

Not tested on a device yet. What that means

Kate in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own kate package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Kate should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Compilers and interpreters run on the device's own ARM64 processor, while containers and virtual machines, which need a kernel of their own, cannot run. More about development tools in Breadstick.

About Kate

From the project's description

Kate is a fast multi-document, multi-view text editor for programmers by KDE. It features stuff like LSP (Language Server Protocol) support, projects, multiple cursors and selections, git integration, folder wide search, horizontal and vertical splits, vi mode, syntax highlighting for 300+ languages, built-in terminal, dynamic word wrap and much more. It is available on Linux, BSD, Windows and MacOS.

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
  • Syntax highlighting for 300+ languages
  • Code and text folding
  • Multiple cursors and multiple selections
  • Block selection mode
  • Auto indentation
  • Auto completion support
  • Shell integration
  • Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.)
  • Extensible via plugins
  • Integrated terminal
  • Scriptable using JavaScript
  • Vi mode
  • Intellisense support using LSP (Language Server Protocol)
  • DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) support
  • Vertical tabs/document list
  • Lightweight project support. Kate can open folders as projects
  • Code formatting using native formatters such as clang-format, prettier etc
  • Built in filesystem browser
  • CTags support
  • Project wide and folder wide search
  • Git integration

From the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's kate package, under CC0-1.0.

Developer
KDE
Keywords
code, developer, editor, programmer, programming, text, txt
Menu categories
Text editors, Development, Utilities

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