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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 ... Read full article.