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The menu allows you to manage settings specific to the active editor, and to manage frames.
Menu Items
Opens another instance of Kate. The new instance will be identical to your previous instance.
Opens the document displayed above the currently open document in the Documents list.
Opens the document displayed below the currently open document in the Documents list.
Displays the currently open document in the Documents list.
Show a search field and a list of opened files in the editor area. While entering text in the search field the document names and document urls are searched for matching text. While entering text in the search field you can use the cursor keys Up and Down to navigate in the list view. Pressing the Enter key or double clicking on an item in the list switches the view to the document selected in the list view. This makes switching between documents easier, if there are a lot of them open.
Focus the previous document view, if you have split the editor area in more views.
Focus the next document view, if you have split the editor area in more views.
This will split the frame (which may be the main editing area) in two equally sized frames, the new one to the left of the current one. The new frame gets the focus, and will display the same document as the old one.
See also Working with the Kate MDI
Splits the current frame (which may be the main editing area) in two equally sized frames, the new one at the bottom half. The new frame gets the focus, and displays the same document as the old one.
See also Working with the Kate MDI
Closes the active frame. This is disabled, if there is only one frame (the main editing area).
No documents get closed by closing a frame – they will still be available in the Menu as well as in the File List.
See also Working with the Kate MDI
When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two vertically split documents further left.
When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two vertically split documents further right.
When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two horizontally split documents further up.
When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two horizontally split documents further down.
Toggles the display of the sidebar button rows. This command does not affect the display of the sidebar content widgets, any sidebar that is visible will stay visible, and if you assigned shortcuts to the below commands those will of course continue to work.
Toggle the display of Kate's Documents list
Toggles the display of the built in terminal emulator.
When activated the first time, the terminal will be created.
When the terminal emulator is displayed, it will get the focus, so that you can start typing in commands immediately. If the Automatically synchronize the terminal with the current document when possible option is enabled in the Terminal page of the Main configuration dialog the shell session will change to the directory of the active document, if it is a local file.
This menu item is displayed by the Terminal Tool View plugin, which is enabled by default.
This command will toggle the display of the built in command line.
This opens a tool view that allows you to run Javascript code interactively. For more information, see Extending Kate with Scripts.
This menu lists the available color schemes. You can change the schema for the current view here, to change the default schema you need to use the Fonts & Colors page of the config dialog.
Toggles dynamic word wrap in the current view. Dynamic word wrap makes all the text in a view visible without the need for horizontal scrolling by rendering one actual line on more visual lines as needed.
Choose when and how the dynamic word wrap indicators should be displayed. This is only available if the Dynamic Word Wrap option is checked.
Toggles the display of a vertical line indicating the position of the wrap width as configured in the config dialog. This feature requires that you use a true fixed-width font.
This is a toggle item. Setting it on checked will make the Icon Border visible in the left side of the active editor, and vice versa. The Icon Border indicates the positions of the marked lines in the editor.
This is a toggle Item. Setting it on checked will make a pane displaying the line numbers of the document visible in the left border of the active editor, and vice versa.
Toggles the visualization of bookmarks (and other marks) on the vertical scrollbar. When enabled, marks are represented by a thin line in the mark color at the scrollbar, middleclicking on the lines will scroll the view to a position near the mark.
This will replace the scrollbar with a visualization of the current document. For more information on the scrollbar minimap, see the section called “The Scrollbar Minimap”
Toggles the visualization of bookmarks (and other marks) on the vertical scrollbar. When enabled, marks are represented by a thin line in the mark color at the scrollbar, middleclicking on the lines will scroll the view to a position near the mark.
Toggles the display of the folding marker pane in the left side of the view. See Using Code Folding.
These options pertain to code folding:
Collapse the region that contains the cursor.
Expand the region that contains the cursor.
Expand all regions in the document.
Fold all multiline comments in the document. (For example, this will fold all comments that use “/* comment */” syntax in C-like programming languages.)
Collapse all toplevel regions in the document.
Collapse all level 2 nodes in the document.
Collapse all level 3 nodes in the document.
Collapse all level 4 nodes in the document.
Expand all toplevel regions in the document.
Expand all level 2 nodes in the document.
Expand all level 3 nodes in the document.
Expand all level 4 nodes in the document.
This increases the display font size.
This decreases the display font size.
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