How I use Kate editor
Published on: 2025-04-21 21:50:07
How I use Kate Editor
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do. Kate has been around for long time now, about 20 years! At least earliest blog post for it I could find was written in 2004.
I wanted to go over my workflow with it, why I like it so much and hopefully get more people to try it out.
How I set up my editor
Here's some settings I find important for my workflow. There's tons more settings to fiddle with, but most of the defaults suffice for me very well.
Plugins I use
Here's a list of the plugins I have enabled. Some of them are self-explanatory, some I will go more in detail later.
Build & Run
Color Picker
Colored Brackets
Document Preview
Docment Switcher
External Tools
Formatting
Git Blame
Kate Debugger
LSP Client
Open Link
Project Plugin
Search & Replace
Snippets
Terminal
Move and split views
In Kate, most views are in their own little tabs. You can right click these tabs and select "Own section" which
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