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Kate offers several types of plugins. There are plugins for Kate editor component, which are available to any application using the editor component, such as KDevelop, Quanta, Kile, KWrite and many others. There are also plugins only available in the Kate editor itself. There are two types of these plugins: some are written in native C++, while others are written in the Python programming language. There are subtle differences in these, described below.
You can enable any type of plugin in the configuration dialog, which also provides access to additional configuration options for plugins that require that.
There are many plugins for various purposes available and you can search the web for more. A few plugins are shipped with the editor component, for inserting automatic braces, insert files, and exporting text as HTML.
These plugins are available to any program using the Kate Editor Component. To learn how to enable, disable, or configure them, see the section called “Extensions”.
The autobrace plugin supersedes the Kate internal “Auto Brackets” feature. It automatically inserts a closing brace } at the beginning of the next line after ending a line with an opening one { and pressing the Enter key.
This command allows you to export the current document with all highlighting information into a HTML document using → . Additionally you can use → to copy the currently selected text as HTML to the system clipboard.
Highlights all words that match the currently selected text.
The icon inserter plugin is only of use for KDE developers: It adds an item into the context menu of the editor. If activated, the KDE's icon chooser opens (showing application icons, action icons etc...). If you click on it, the file name without file extension will be inserted as text. Useful only for setting icons via KDE's framework through the KIcon() class.
This plugin allows you to insert any readable file at the cursor position. If enabled, the menu has an additional menu item .
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