<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>Malcolm</firstname><surname>Hunter</surname><affiliation><address><email>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit>
<para>This command <action>starts a new document</action> in the editing window. In the <guibutton>Filelist</guibutton> on the left the new file is named <emphasis>Untitled</emphasis>. </para>
<para>This command does not <action>open a file</action>. It launches &kde;'s open file dialogue box which waits for you to select the files you want to open. </para>
<para>The open file dialogue box works like a simple version of &konqueror;. Use your &LMB; to click on a file name to select it. Double-click on a file name to open that file. Once you've selected a file name, you can also press the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button to open the file. </para>
<para>Select multiple files by holding down the &Ctrl; or the &Shift; key along with the &LMB;. <keycombo action="simul"> &Ctrl;<mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> </keycombo> click selects one file at a time. <keycombo action="simul"> &Shift;<mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> </keycombo> click selects a contiguous set of files. </para>
<para>Clicking on a folder name in the file selection window opens that folder and displays its contents. Clicking on a file name shows a thumbnail view of the file in the preview window to the right of the file system window. </para>
<para>Use the buttons and combo box on the toolbar above the file selection window to move through the file system or to adjust the properties of the open file dialogue box. </para>
<para>Below the file selection window is the Location combo box. Type the name of the file you want to edit here. If you click the arrow on the right of the drop down box, you can choose from recently used files. Open several files at once by quoting each file name. </para>
<para>Below the Location combo box is the Filter combo box. Enter file masks here to filter the kinds of files shown in the selection window. For example, typing the filter <literal role="extension">*.txt</literal> and pressing <keycap>Enter</keycap> will limit the display to files with a <literal role="extension">.txt</literal> extension. The Filter combo contains a list of your most recently used filters. </para>
<para>This command <action>saves your file</action>. Use it often. If the file is <emphasis>Untitled</emphasis> then <guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem> becomes <guimenuitem>Save As</guimenuitem>. </para>
<para><action>Name and rename files</action> with this command. It launches the save file dialogue box. This dialogue works just as the open file dialogue box does. You can use it to navigate through your file system, preview existing files, or filter your file view with file masks. </para>
<para>Type the name you want to give the file you are saving in the Location combo box and press the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button. </para>
<para><action>Reloads the active file from disk</action>. This command is useful if another program or process has changed the file while you have it open in &kate; </para>
<para>This command launches the open with dialogue box that allows you to <action>select another application to open the active file</action>. Your file will still be open in &kate;. </para>
<para><action>Close the active file</action> with this command. If you have made unsaved changes, you will be prompted to save the file before &kate; closes it. </para>
<para>This command <action>closes &kate;</action> and any files you were editing. If you have made unsaved changes to any of the files you were editing, you will be prompted to save them. </para>
<para>Toggles Selection Mode. When the Selection Mode is <quote>BLOCK</quote>, you can make vertical selections, ie select column 5 to 10 in lines 9 to 15.</para>
<para>The status bar shows the current state of the Selection Mode, either <quote>NORM</quote> or <quote>BLK</quote>.</para>
<para>Enclose or prepend the current line, or any selected text, with (a) comment marker(s), according to the rules defined by the syntax rules for the document. Does nothing if no comment rules are defined.</para>
<para>This is interesting mostly when working with source code, for example with C/C++, perl, python &etc;, as well as with markup text like <acronym>HTML</acronym>, &XML;, <acronym>CSS</acronym> and so on.</para>
<para>A menu entry for each open document will be available below the entries documented here. Clicking one of these will bring the requested document to focus. If you have multiple frames, an editor for that document will be displayed in the currently active frame.</para>
<para>This will bring the previous document in the stack in focus. If you have multiple frames, an editor for the document will be displayed in the currently active frame.</para> <para>The order is the order in which documents were opened, rather than a logical history. This behaviour may change in future versions of &kate;.</para>
<para>This will bring the previous document in the stack in focus. If you have multiple frames, an editor for the document will be displayed in the currently active frame.</para>
<para>The order is the order in which the documents were opened, rather than a logical history. This behaviour may change in future versions of &kate;.</para>
<para>The <guimenu>Highlight Mode</guimenu> menu allows you to manually decide which syntax rules to use for highlighting and <link linkend="edit-comment"><guimenuitem>comment</guimenuitem></link>'ing the active document. The menu groups the available syntax rule sets into logical groups.</para>
<para>This menu allows you to manually set the End of Line mode for the active document. Changing the mode will replace all line separators in the document with the character sequence for the new mode.</para>
<listitem><para>On <acronym>DOS</acronym> (and &Windows;) systems, end of line is represented by a carriage return followed by a newline.</para></listitem>
<para>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.</para>
<para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the &kate; MDI</link></para>
<para>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.</para>
<para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the &kate; MDI</link></para>
<para>Closes the active frame. This is disabled, if there is only one frame (the main editing area).</para> <para>No documents get closed by closing a frame – they will still be available in the <link linkend="document-menu"><guimenu>Documents</guimenu> Menu</link> as well as in the File List.</para> <para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the &kate; MDI</link></para>
<para>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.</para>
<para>Move focus to the next frame; the order is following order of creation rather than that of visual logic. This behaviour may change in a future version of &kate;</para>
<para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the &kate; MDI</link></para>
<para>Move focus to the previous frame; the order is following order of creation rather than that of visual logic. This behaviour may change in a future version of &kate;</para>
<para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the &kate; MDI</link></para>
<para>Below the entries described here, one entry for each bookmark in the active document will be available. The text will be the first few words of the marked line. Choose an item to move the cursor to the start of that line. The editor will scroll as necessary to make that line visible.</para>
<para>The <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu contains commands of two categories: <itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Tools doing advanced editing of the current document, for example <link linkend="tools-menu-editing-command"><guimenuitem>Editing Command</guimenuitem></link>.</para>
<listitem><para>Tools adding functionality to the application, for example the <link linkend="tools-menu-find-in-files"><guimenuitem>Find in Files</guimenuitem></link> tool.</para>
<para>The <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu allows you to change the properties of the main window, such as showing/hiding toolbars and boxes, and provides access to the configuration dialogues.</para>
<para>Toggles the display of the built in terminal emulator.</para>
<para>When activated the first time, the terminal will be created.</para>
<para>When the terminal emulator is displayed, it will get the focus, so that you can start typing in commands immediately. If the <link linkend="config-dialog-general-sync-konsole">Sync Konsole with Active Document</link> option is enabled in the <link linkend="config-dialog-general">General Page</link> of the <link linkend="config-dialog">Main configuration dialogue</link> the shell session will change to the directory of the active document, if it is a local file.</para>
<para>As well as the standard &kde; <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu items described below, if you have installed the tdeaddons package with additional &kate; plugins, you will have a menu entry to show the Plugins User Manuals.</para>