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<title>The &kate; Handbook</title>
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<authorgroup>
<author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author>
<author>&Seth.Rothberg; &Seth.Rothberg.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>John</firstname><surname>Knight</surname><affiliation><address><email>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit>
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
<year>2000</year>
<year>2001</year>
<holder>&Seth.Rothberg;</holder>
</copyright>
<copyright>
<year>2002</year><year>2003</year>
<holder>&Anders.Lund;</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>
<date>2002-01-26</date>
<releaseinfo>2.00.00</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>&kate; is a programmer's text editor for &kde; 2.2 and above.</para>
<para>This handbook documents &kate; Version 1.0</para>
</abstract>
<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>tdebase</keyword>
<keyword>Kate</keyword>
<keyword>text</keyword>
<keyword>editor</keyword>
<keyword>programmer</keyword>
<keyword>programming</keyword>
<keyword>projects</keyword>
<keyword>MDI</keyword>
<keyword>Multi</keyword>
<keyword>Document</keyword>
<keyword>Interface</keyword>
<keyword>terminal</keyword>
<keyword>console</keyword>
</keywordset>
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<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>Welcome to &kate;, a programmer's text editor for &kde; version 2.2 and above. Some of &kate;'s many features include configurable syntax highlighting for languages ranging from C and C++ to <acronym>HTML</acronym> to bash scripts, the ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface (<acronym>MDI</acronym>), and a self-contained terminal emulator. </para>
<para>But &kate; is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open several files at once makes it ideal for editing &UNIX;'s many configuration files. This document was written in &kate;. </para>
<para>
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<caption><para>Editing this manual...</para></caption>
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&fundamentals-chapter;
&mdi-chapter;
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&plugins-chapter;
&advanced-chapter;
&menu-chapter;
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<chapter id="credits">
<title>Credits and Licence</title>
<para>&kate;. Program copyright 2000, 2001, 2002 by the &kate; developer team. </para>
<variablelist>
<title>The &kate; team:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Christoph.Cullmann; &Christoph.Cullmann.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>Project Manager & Core Developer</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>Core Developer, Perl syntax highlighting, documentation</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Joseph.Wenninger; &Joseph.Wenninger.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>Core Developer, syntax highlighting</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Michael Bartl <email>michael.bartl1@chello.at</email></term>
<listitem><para>Core Developer</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Phlip <email>phlip_cpp@my-deja.com</email></term>
<listitem><para>The project compiler</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Waldo.Bastian; &Waldo.Bastian.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>The cool buffer system</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Matt Newell <email>newellm@proaxis.com</email></term>
<listitem><para>Testing...</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Michael McCallum <email>gholam@xtra.co.nz</email></term>
<listitem><para>Core Developer</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Jochen Wilhemly <email>digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de</email></term>
<listitem><para>KWrite Author</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Michael.Koch; &Michael.Koch.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>KWrite port to KParts</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Christian Gebauer <email>gebauer@bigfoot.com</email></term>
<listitem><para>Unspecified</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Simon.Hausmann; &Simon.Hausmann.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>Unspecified</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Glen Parker <email>glenebob@nwlink.com</email></term>
<listitem><para>KWrite Undo History, KSpell integration</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Scott Manson <email>sdmanson@alltel.net</email></term>
<listitem><para>KWrite XML syntax highlighting support</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&John.Firebaugh; &John.Firebaugh.mail;</term>
<listitem><para>Various Patches</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<variablelist>
<title>Many other people have contributed:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term>Matteo Merli <email>merlim@libero.it</email></term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for RPM Spec-Files, Diff and more</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Rocky Scaletta <email>rocky@purdue.edu</email></term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for VHDL</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Yury Lebedev </term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for SQL</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Chris Ross</term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for Ferite</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Nick Roux</term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for ILERPG</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>John Firebaugh</term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for Java, and much more</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Carsten Niehaus</term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for LaTeX</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Per Wigren</term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for Makefiles, Python</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Jan Fritz</term>
<listitem><para>Highlighting for Python</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&Daniel.Naber;</term>
<listitem><para>Small bugfixes, XML plugin</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Documentation copyright 2000,2001 &Seth.Rothberg; &Seth.Rothberg.mail;</para>
<para>Documentation copyright 2002, 2003 &Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</para>
<para>Conversion to British English: John Knight <email>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email></para>
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<title>Installation</title>
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