Kate
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kate (computing), Kate text editor, Kate (editor), Kate (software), Kate editor, Kate the woodpecker, Kate the Cyber Woodpecker
Text editor
Key facts
- Developer
- KDE
- Initial release
- 2001 ; 25 years ago ( 2001 )
- Stable release
- 25.12.2 / 1 February 2026
- Written in
- C++ , Qt
- Operating system
- 25 Linux distributions Microsoft Windows macOS
- Type
- Source code editor
- License
- LGPL-2.0-or-later , MIT
- Website
- kate-editor .org
- Repository
- invent .kde .org /utilities /kate
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Kate - Get an Edge in Editing
Kate is a modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.
kate-editor.org →Link to the official site · 6,896 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Part of
- KDE Gear
- Genre
- text editor
- Official website
- kate-editor.org
- Image
- Kate 24.12.0 screenshot.webp
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- Commons category
- Kate (text editor)
- programmed in
- Q2407
- copyright license
- MIT License
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Q201904
- software version identifier
- 25.08.1
- issue tracker URL
- bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kate
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- official blog URL
- kate-editor.org/post
- user manual URL
- docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/kate/index.html
- distributed by
- Microsoft Store
- source code repository URL
- github.com/KDE/kate
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.org/#kde
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- publication date
- 2001-08-15
- different from
- Kate
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Encyclopedic overview
The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community. It has been a part of KDE Software Compilation since version 2.2, which was first released in 2001. Intended for software developers, it features syntax highlighting, code folding, customizable layouts, multiple cursors and selections, regular expression support, and extensibility via plugins.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.