Kate

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Kate is a text editor for KDE.

Installation

Install the kate package.

To get an integrated terminal install konsole.

The package git activates the git-blame plugin.

For additional programming language support, see Language Server Protocol.

Kate can open folders and if it detects a .kateproject JSON file it will load the configuration.

This example will read all files tracked by git and add support for Make build system.

.kateproject

{
  "name": "Project",
  "files": [ { "git": 1 } ],
  "build": {
  "directory": ".",
    "build": "make all",
    "clean": "make clean"
  }
}