Features of Kate Editor

Introduction:

• Kate is a Multi Document Editor / Text Editor.
• Kate is an user friendly text editor.
• It is developed by KDE --> K Desktop Environment. 
• KDE provides an user interface for desktop environment for UNIX / LINUX.
• Kate supports MDI --> Multiple Document Interface as well as SDI --> Single Document Interface.
• Kate Editor itself,  contains Terminal. If we choose one document, it will be automatically change the directory as corresponding choosed document in the kate window.
• Kate provides the session handling, that is while we open the kate editor, it ask to open either New Session or Open previous session (it has maintained session for existing opened document).

Key Features:

• MDI, SDI, and window splitting
• Spell checking
• Encoding support ( utf-8, utf-16, ascii, etc.. )
• Efficient Find & Replace dialog box
• Powerful syntax highlights and bracket matching
• Code and Text Folding
• Infinite Undo / Redo support
• Block selection mode
• Auto indentation and Auto completion support
• Shell integration
• Customizable shortcuts
• Integrated command line

Extra Features in File Menu:

• Export as HTML --> It can be used to export our document type into HTML document type.
• Open with --> It can be used to open our existing document type into some other document type.
• Mail --> It can be used to send our document in mail.

Extra Features in Edit Menu:

• Undo & Redo -->Infinite number of Undo & Redo support
• Block selection mode --> It can be used to select a particular area of contents in a document.
• Search incrementally --> It can be used to provide additional search box in top of the tool bar, and incrementally search the key word.
• Search incrementally backwards --> It can be used to provide additional search box in top of the tool bar, and search incrementally backwards.

Extra Features in View Menu:

• Switch to command line --> It can be used to provide command line box, and it will be used to execute kate editor commands such as set-tab-width, set-icon-border, etc.....
• Dynamic word wrap --> It can be used to wrap the word automatically based on the window size.
• Dynamic word wrap indicators --> It can be used to indicate the symbol or icon for wrapped lines.
• Show static word wrap marker --> It can be used to show one line vertically, that denotes the word wrap boundary.

Extra Features in Bookmarks Menu:

• Set Bookmarks --> It can be used to set the bookmarks for particular lines in a document.

Extra Features in Tools Menu:

• Pipe to console --> It can be used to pass the command to the konsole.
• Uppercase --> It can be used to change lowercase letters into uppercase letters in document.
• Lowercase --> It can be used to change uppercase letters into lowercase letters in document.
• Capitalize --> It can be used to change the first letter as uppercase in the word.
• Join lines --> It can be used to join the more than one lines into single line in document.
• Insert Files --> It can be used to insert the some other files into bottom of the existing document.

Extra Features in Sessions Menu:

• New Session --> It can be used to start the new session.

Extra Features in Settings Menu:

• Configure Shortcuts --> It can be used to customize the shortcuts for user convenience.
• Configure Tool bars --> It can be used to customize the tool bars for user convenience.
• Configure Kate --> It can be used to configure additional features in the kate such as Background color changes, differentiate keywords, etc...

Extra Features in Window Menu:

• New Window --> It can be used to create clone document for current document.
• Split Vertical --> It can be used to show the current document into 2 vertical windows.
• Split Horizontal --> It can be used to show the current document into 2 horizontal windows.