Chapter 9. Configuring Kate

Anders Lund

Table of Contents

Overview
The Main Configuration Dialog
The Kate Application Configuration
General
Sessions
Plugins
Documents
Terminal
The Editor Component Configuration
Appearance
Fonts & Colors
Editing
Open/Save
Extensions
Configuring With Document Variables
How Kate uses Variables
Available Variables

Overview

Kate offers several means of tweaking the application to behave as desired. The most important ones are:

The Configuration Dialog

The main configuration tool, allowing you to configure the Kate application, the editor component and the usage of plugins.

The Settings Menu

Allows you to change often used settings, and to launch the configuration dialogs.

The View Menu

Allows you to split the current frame, as well as to display the icons and line numbers pane for the currently edited document.

The embedded terminal is using the configuration defined in the System Settings, and may be configured by clicking the right mouse button to display a context menu.