Kate

Text editor for programmers with LSP, Git and terminal AI summary
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Kate is a text editor for programmers by KDE, supporting multiple documents and views at once. It offers Language Server Protocol support for intellisense and Debug Adapter Protocol support for debugging, along with git integration and project-wide or folder-wide search. It provides multiple cursors and selections, horizontal and vertical window splits, a vi mode and syntax highlighting for over 300 languages. A built-in terminal and integrated filesystem browser are included, along with support for regular expression based find and replace. The editor is extensible through plugins and scriptable using JavaScript, and runs on Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS.
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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
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201,2 MB
Last updated in Microsoft Store
2026-05-03
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4.7 ★
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