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We've compiled a list of 111 free and paid alternatives to Kate. The primary competitors include Notepad++, Sublime Text. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Kate and Vim, Atom, gedit. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


Notepad++ is a free text editor that supports color-coded syntax highlighting for different programming languages, auto-completion, the ability to open different tabs with different files at the same time, and support for plugins to extend functiona…

Sublime Text
Free Trial One Time License

Sublime Text is a powerful text editor tailored for programmers, boasting robust syntax highlighting for numerous languages, seamless code completion, and multicursor functionality. Its integrated Git support streamlines version control, while exten…

Vim
Free Open Source

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word...

Atom
Free

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.

gedit
Free Open Source

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

Visual Studio Code is a versatile code editor tailored for modern web and cloud app development. It's free, cross-platform, and boasts a rich ecosystem of extensions.

Geany
Free

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment.

GNU Emacs
Free Open Source

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.

Aptana Studio
Free Open Source

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with...

Notepad2
Free Open Source

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting.

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax...

Kate Platforms

tick-square Windows
tick-square Linux

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Kate Overview

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the kwrite editing widget of KDE, offering all the features of that plus a bunch of its own. Kate has been been moved to the kdesdk package in KDE4, and is a built-in part of your favorite desktop since release 2.2.

Being a native KDE application, Kate is of course born with networking transparency, as well as it integrates with the outstanding features of KDE. Choose it for viewing HTML sources from konqueror, editing configuration files, writing new applications or any other text editing task. You still need just one running instance of Kate.

With a multi-view editor like Kate you get a lot of advantages. You can view several instances of the same document and all instances are synced. Or you can view more files at the same time for easy reference or simultaneous editing. The terminal emulation and sidebar are docked windows that can be plugged out of the main window, or replaced therein according to your preference.

A Windows version is available along with KDE for Windows @ http://windows.kde.org/.

Kate Features

tick-square Syntax Highlighting
tick-square Support for regular expressions
tick-square Code formatting
tick-square Tabbed interface

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