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<p>Kate comes with a nice set of plugins, providing simple
and advanced features of all sorts.</p>
<p>You can enable/disable plugins to suit your needs in the configuration dialog,
choose <strong>Settings ->configure</strong> to launch that.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>You can swap the characters on each side of the cursor just by pressing
<strong>Ctrl+T</strong></p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>You can export the current document as a HTML file, including
syntax highlighting.</p>
<p>Just choose <strong>File -> Export -> HTML...</strong></p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
<html>
<p>You can split the Kate editor as many times as you like and
in either direction. Each frame has its own status bar and
can display any open document.</p>
<p>Just choose <br><strong>View -> Split [ Horizontal | Vertical ]</strong></p>
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</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
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<p>You can drag the Tool views (<em>File List</em> and <em>File Selector</em>)
to any side that you want them in Kate, or stack them, or even tear them off the
main window.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
<html>
<p>Kate has a built-in terminal emulator, just click on <strong>"Terminal"</strong> at
the bottom to show or hide it as you desire.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>Kate can highlight the current line with a
<table bgcolor="yellow" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr><td>different
background color.<strong>|</strong></td></tr></table></p>
<p>You can set the color in the <em>Colors</em> page of the configuration
dialog.</p>
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</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
<html>
<p>You can open the currently edited file in any other application from within
Kate.</p>
<p>Choose <strong>File -> Open With</strong> for the list of programs
configured
for the document type. There is also an option <strong>Other...</strong> to
choose any application on your system.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>You can configure the editor to always display the line numbers and/or
bookmark panes when started from the <strong>View Defaults</strong> page of the
configuration dialog.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>You can download new or updated <em>Syntax highlight definitions</em> from
the <strong>Highlighting</strong> page in the configuration dialog.</p>
<p>Just click the <em>Download...</em> button on the <em>Open/Save -> Modes & Filetypes</em>
tab (You have to be online, of course...).</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
<html>
<p>You can cycle through all open documents by pressing <strong>Alt+Left</strong>
or <strong>Alt+Right</strong>. The next/previous document will immediately be displayed
in the active frame.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>You can do cool sed-like regular expression replacements using <em>Command Line</em>.</p>
<p>For example, press <strong>F7</strong> and enter <code>s /oldtext/newtext/g</code>
to replace "oldtext" with "newtext" throughout the current
line.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|part">
<html>
<p>You can repeat your last search by just pressing <strong>F3</strong>, or
<strong>Shift+F3</strong> if you want to search backwards.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
<html>
<p>You can filter the files displayed in the <em>File Selector</em> tool view.
</p>
<p>Simply enter your filter in the filter entry at the bottom, for example:
<code>*.html *.php</code> if you only want to see HTML and PHP files in the
current folder.</p>
<p>The File Selector will even remember your filters for you.</strong></p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="Kate|app">
<html>
<p>You can have two views - or even more - of the same document in Kate. Editing
in either will be reflected in both.</p>
<p>So if you find yourself scrolling up and down to look at text at the other
end of a document, just press <strong>Ctrl+Shift+T</strong> to split
horizontally.</p>
</html>
</tip>
<tip category="kate|app">
<html>
<p>Press <strong>F8</strong> or <strong>Shift+F8</strong> to switch to the
next/previous frame.</p>
</html>
</tip>
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