# Menu Entries

## The File Menu

&Ctrl;N File New

  This command starts a new document in the editing window. In the Documents list on the left the new file is named Untitled.

&Ctrl;O File Open...

  Displays a standard &kde; Open File dialog. Use the file view to select the file you want to open, and click on Open to open it.

File Open Recent

  This is a shortcut to open recently saved documents. Clicking on this item opens a list to the side of the menu with several of the most recently saved files. Clicking on a specific file will open it in &kappname; - if the file still resides at the same location.

File Open With

  This submenu presents a list of applications known to handle the mime type of your current document. Activating an entry will open the current document with that application.

  In addition, a entry Other... command launches the open with dialog box that allows you to select another application to open the active file. Your file will still be open in &kate;.

&Ctrl;L File Save All

  This command saves all modified open files.

File Reload All

  Reloads all opened files..

File Close Orphaned

  Close all documents in the file list, which could not be reopened during startup, because they are not accessible anymore.

&Ctrl;S File Save

  This command saves your file. Use it often. If the file is Untitled then Save becomes Save As.

File Save As...

  Name and rename files with this command. It launches the save file dialog box. This dialog works just as the open file dialog box does. You can use it to navigate through your file system, preview existing files, or filter your file view with file masks.

  Type the name you want to give the file you are saving in the Location combo box and press the OK button.

File Close Other

  Close other open documents.

F5 File Reload

  Reloads the active file. This command is useful if another program or process has changed the file while you have it open in &kate;

&Ctrl;P File Print...

  Print the active file.

File Export as HTML...

  Export your file in &HTML; format so your document can be viewed as a web page. This item is only displayed when the plugin Exporter is loaded.

File Mail...

  Open your mail client and attach the file in the mail. This item is only displayed, when the plugin Mail files in &kate;'s settings is loaded.

&Ctrl;W File Close

  Close the active file with this command. If you have made unsaved changes, you will be prompted to save the file before &kate; closes it.

File Close All

  This command closes all the files you have open in &kate;.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

  This command closes &kate; 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.

## The Edit Menu

The Edit menu contains a host of commands, all to work with the currently active document.

### Menu Entries

&Ctrl;Z Edit Undo

  Undo the last editing command (typing, copying, cutting etc.)

  If grouped undo is enabled, this may undo several editing commands of the same type, like typing in characters.

&Ctrl;&Shift;Z Edit Redo

  Redo the last undo step.

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

  Removes selected text if any, and places a copy of the removed text in the clipboard.

&Ctrl;C Edit Copy

  Copies selected text, if any, to the clipboard.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste

  Copies the first item in the clipboard into the editor at cursor position.

  If Overwrite Selection is enabled, the pasted text will overwrite the selection, if any.

Edit Copy as HTML...

  Copies selected text with the syntax highlight as HTML text. This item is only displayed when the plugin Exporter is loaded.

&Ctrl;A Edit Select All

  Selects all text in the editor.

&Ctrl;&Shift;A Edit Deselect

  Deselects the selected text in the editor if any.

&Ctrl;&Shift; B Edit Block Selection Mode

  Toggles Selection Mode. When the Selection Mode is BLOCK, you can make vertical selections, &eg; select column 5 to 10 in lines 9 to 15.

  The status bar shows the current state of the Selection Mode, either LINE or BLOCK.

Meta&Ctrl;V Edit VI input Mode

  Switch to a vi-like, modal editing mode. This mode supports the most used commands and motions from vim's normal and visual mode and has an optional vi mode statusbar. This status bar shows commands while they are being entered, output from commands and the current mode.The behavior of this mode can be configured in the Vi Input Mode section of the Editing page in &kappname;'s settings dialog.

Ins Edit Overwrite Mode

  Toggles the Insert/Overwrite modes. When the mode is INS, you insert characters where the cursor is. When the mode is OVR, writing characters will replace the current characters if your cursor is positioned before any character. The status bar shows the current state of the Overwrite Mode, either INS or OVR.

Edit Find in Files...

  Launch the Find in Files dialog to allow you to search for text in the files of a folder. This item is only displayed when the plugin Find in Files is loaded.

&Ctrl;F Edit Find...

  Launch the incremental search bar to allow you to search for text in the edited document.

F3 Edit Find Next

  Go to the nearest downwards match of the last text or regular expression searched for, starting from cursor position

&Shift;F3 Edit Find Previous

  Go to the nearest upwards match of the last text or regular expression searched for, starting from cursor position

&Ctrl;R Edit Replace...

  Launch the power search and replace bar to replace one or more instances of a defined text with something else.

&Ctrl;H Edit Find Selected

  Finds next occurrence of selected text.

&Ctrl;&Shift;H Edit Find Selected Backwards

  Finds previous occurrence of selected text.

&Ctrl;G Edit Go to Line...

  Launches the Go To Line bar, allowing you to enter the number of a line to find in the document

## The View menu

The View menu allows you to manage settings specific to the active editor, and to manage frames.

### Menu Items

View New Window

  Opens another instance of &kate;. The new instance will be identical to your previous instance.

&Ctrl;&Shift;L View Split View Split Vertical

  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.

  See also Working with the &kate; MDI

&Ctrl;&Shift;T View Split View Split Horizontal

  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.

  See also Working with the &kate; MDI

&Ctrl;&Shift;R View Split View Close Current View

  Closes the active frame. This is disabled, if there is only one frame (the main editing area).

  No documents get closed by closing a frame – they will still be available in the Go Menu as well as in the File List.

  See also Working with the &kate; MDI

View Tool Views
  &Ctrl;&Alt;&Shift;F View Tool Views Show Sidebars

    Toggles the display of the sidebar button rows. This command does not affect the display of the sidebar content widgets, any sidebar that is visible will stay visible, and if you assigned shortcuts to the below commands those will of course continue to work.

  View Tool Views Show Documents

    Toggle the display of &kate;'s Documents list

  View Tool Views Show Terminal

    Toggles the display of the built in terminal emulator.

    When activated the first time, the terminal will be created.

    When the terminal emulator is displayed, it will get the focus, so that you can start typing in commands immediately. If the Automatically synchronize the terminal with the current document when possible option is enabled in the Terminal page of the Main configuration dialog the shell session will change to the directory of the active document, if it is a local file.

  View Tool Views Show Filesystem Browser

    Toggle the display of &kate;'s Filesystem Browser

  View Tool Views Show Find in Files

    Toggle the display of &kate;'s Find in Files tool. This item is only displayed when the plugin Find in Files is loaded.

F7 View Switch to Command Line

  This command will toggle the display of the built in command line.

View Schema

  This menu lists the available schemas. You can change the schema for the current view here, to change the default schema you need to use the Fonts & Colors page of the config dialog.

F10 View Dynamic Word Wrap

  Toggles dynamic word wrap in the current view. Dynamic word wrap makes all the text in a view visible without the need for horizontal scrolling by rendering one actual line on more visual lines as needed.

View Dynamic Word Wrap Indicators

  Choose when and how the dynamic word wrap indicators should be displayed. This is only available if the Dynamic Word Wrap option is checked.

View Show Static Word Wrap Marker

  Toggles the display of a vertical line indicating the position of the wrap width as configured in the config dialog. This feature requires that you use a true fixed-width font.

F6 View Show Icon Border

  This is a toggle item. Setting it on checked will make the Icon Border visible in the left side of the active editor, and vice versa.

F11 View Show Line Numbers

  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.

View Show Scrollbar Marks

  Toggles the visualization of bookmarks (and other marks) on the vertical scrollbar. When enabled, marks are represented by a thin line in the mark color at the scrollbar, middleclicking on the lines will scroll the view to a position near the mark.

F9 View Show Folding Markers

  Toggles the display of the folding marker pane in the left side of the view. See Using Code Folding.

Code Folding
  &Ctrl; &Shift;- Collapse Toplevel

    Collapse all toplevel regions in the document.

  &Ctrl; &Shift;+ Expand Toplevel

    Expand all toplevel regions in the document.

  &Ctrl; - Collapse One Local Level

    Collapse the region closest to the cursor.

  &Ctrl; + Expand One Local Level

    Expand the region closest to the cursor.

Enlarge Font

  This increases the display font size.

Shrink Font

  This decreases the display font size.

## The Go Menu

The Go menu provides a menu entry for each open document. 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.

In addition, commands to browse your open documents are provided:

### Menu items

&Alt;Left Go Back

  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.

  The order is the order in which documents were opened, rather than a logical history. This behavior may change in future versions of &kate;.

&Alt;Right Go Forward

  This will bring the next document in the stack in focus. If you have multiple frames, an editor for the document will be displayed in the currently active frame.

  The order is the order in which the documents were opened, rather than a logical history. This behavior may change in future versions of &kate;.

&Shift;F8 Go Previous Split View

  Focus the previous document view, if you have split the editor area in more views.

F8 Go Next Split View

  Focus the next document view, if you have split the editor area in more views.

&Ctrl;1 Go Quickswitch

  Opens the Document Quick Switch dialog with a search field and a list of opened files. While entering text in the search field the document names and document urls are searched for matching text. While entering text in the search field you can use the cursor keys Up and Down to navigate in the list view. If the dialog is left with OK the plugin switches the view to the document selected in the list view. This makes switching between documents easier, if there are a lot of them open. This menu item is only displayed if the plugin Quick Document switcher is loaded.

## The Bookmarks Menu

The Bookmarks menu allows you to work with the bookmarks in the currently active document.

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.

### Menu Items

&Ctrl;B Bookmarks Set Bookmark

  Sets or removes a bookmark in the current line of the active document. (If it's there, it is removed, otherwise one is set.)

Bookmarks Clear All Bookmarks

  Clears (removes) all bookmarks in the active document.

&Alt; PgUp Bookmarks Previous

  This will move the cursor to beginning of the first above line with a bookmark. The menuitem text will include the line number and the first piece of text on the line. This item is only available when there is a bookmark in a line above the cursor.

&Alt; PgDown Bookmarks Next

  This will move the cursor to beginning of the next line with a bookmark. The menuitem text will include the line number and the first piece of text on the line. This item is only available when there is a bookmark in a line below the cursor.

## The Sessions Menu

This menu contains entries for using and managing &kate; sessions. For more information, read Using Sessions.

Sessions New

  Creates a new empty session. All currently open files will be closed.

Sessions Open Session...

  Open an existing session. The Session Chooser dialog is displayed to let you choose one.

Sessions Quick Open Session

  This submenu lets you open an existing session.

Sessions Save Session

  Save the current session. If the session is anonymous, you will be prompted for a session name.

Sessions Save Session As...

  Save the current session under a new name. You are prompted for a name to use.

Sessions Manage Sessions...

  Displays the Session Manager dialog which allows you to rename and delete sessions.

## The Tools Menu

Tools Pipe to Terminal

  Feed the currently selected text into the built in terminal emulator. No newline is added after the text.

Tools Synchronize Terminal with Current Document

  This will cause the built-in Terminal to `cd` into the directory of the active document when launched and when a new document gets the focus.

Tools Focus/Defocus Terminal

  Switch the focus from the current document to the terminal and vice versa.

Tools Read Only Mode

  Set the current document to Read Only mode. This prevents any text addition and any changes in the document formatting.

Tools Mode

  Choose the filetype scheme you prefer for the active document. This overwrites the global filetype mode set in Settings Configure &kate;... in the Filetypes tab for your current document only.

Tools Highlighting

  Choose the Highlighting scheme you prefer for the active document. This overwrites the global highlighting mode set in Settings Configure Editor... for your current document only.

Tools Indentation

  Choose the style of indentation you want for your active document. This overwrites the global indentation mode set in Settings Configure Editor... for your current document only.

Tools Encoding

  You can overwrite the default encoding set in Settings Configure Editor... in the Open/Save page to set a different encoding for your current document. The encoding you set here will be only valid for your current document.

Tools End of Line

  Choose your preferred end of line mode for your active document. This overwrites the global end of line mode set in Settings Configure Editor... for your current document only.

Tools Add Byte Mark Order (BOM)

  Checking this action you can explicitly add a byte order mark for unicode encoded documents. The byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character used to signal the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream, for more information see Byte Order Mark.

Tools Scripts

  This submenu contains a list of all scripted actions. The list can easily be modified by writing own scripts. This way, &kate; can be extended with user-defined tools.

&Ctrl;Space Tools Invoke Code Completion

  Manually invoke command completion, usually by using a shortcut bound to this action.

Tools Word Completion

  Reuse Word Below (&Ctrl; 9) and Reuse Word Above (&Ctrl; 8) complete the currently typed text by searching for similar words backward or forward from the current cursor position. Shell Completion pops up a completion box with matching entries.

&Ctrl;&Shift;O Tools Automatic Spell Checking

  When Automatic Spell Checking is enabled, wrong text is underlined in the document on-the-fly.

Tools Spelling...

  This initiates the spellchecking program - a program designed to help the user catch and correct any spelling errors. Clicking on this entry will start the checker and bring up the speller dialog box through which the user can control the process. There are four settings lined up vertically in the center of the dialog with their corresponding labels just to the left. Starting at the top they are:

  Unknown word:

    Here, the spellchecker indicates the word currently under consideration. This happens when the checker encounters a word not in its dictionary - a file containing a list of correctly spelled words against which it compares each word in the editor.

  Replace with:

    If the checker has any similar words in its dictionary the first one will be listed here. The user can accept the suggestion, type in his or her own correction, or choose a different suggestion from the next box.

  Language:

    If you have installed multiple dictionaries, here you can select which dictionary/language should be used.

  On the right side of the dialog box are 6 buttons that allow the user to control the spellcheck process. They are:

  Add to Dictionary

    Pressing this button adds the Unknown word to the checker's dictionary. This means that in the future the checker will always consider this word to be correctly spelled.

  Suggest

    The checker may list here a number of possible replacements for the word under consideration. Clicking on any one of the suggestions will cause that word to be entered in the Replace with box, above.

  Replace

    This button has the checker replace the word under consideration in the document with the word in the Replace with box.

  Replace All

    This button causes the checker to replace not only the current Unknown word: but to automatically make the same substitution for any other occurrences of this Unknown word in the document.

  Ignore

    Activating this button will have the checker move on without making any changes.

  Ignore All

    This button tells the checker to do nothing with the current Unknown word: and to pass over any other instances of the same word.

    This only applies to the current spellcheck run. If the checker is run again later it will stop on this same word.

  Three more buttons are located horizontally along the bottom of the spellcheck dialog. They are:

  Help

    This invokes the &kde; help system starting at the &kate; help pages (this document).

  Finished

    This button ends the spellcheck process, and returns to the document.

  Cancel

    This button cancels the spellcheck process, all modifications are reverted, and you will return to your document.

Tools Spelling (from cursor)...

  This initiates the spellchecking program but it starts where your cursor is instead of at the beginning of the document.

Tools Spellcheck Selection...

  Spellchecks the current selection.

Tools Change Dictionary

  Displays a drop down box with all available dictionaries for spellchecking at the bottom of the editor window. This allows easy switching of the spellcheck dictionary &eg; for automatic spellcheck of text in different languages.

&Ctrl;I Tools Indent

  This increases the paragraph's indentation by one step. The size of the step depends on the indentation settings.

&Ctrl;&Shift;I Tools Unindent

  This reduces the paragraph's indentation by one step. The size of the step depends on the indentation settings.

Tools Clean Indentation

  This cleans the indentation for the current selection or for the line the cursor is currently in. Cleaning the indentation ensures that all your selected text follows the indentation mode you choose.

Tools Align

  Causes a realign of the current line or selected lines using the indentation mode and indentation settings in the document.

&Ctrl;D Tools Comment

  This adds one space to the beginning of the line where the text cursor is located or to the beginning of any selected lines.

&Ctrl;&Shift;D Tools Uncomment

  This removes one space (if any exist) from the beginning of the line where the text cursor is located or from the beginning of any selected lines.

&Ctrl;U Tools Uppercase

  Put the selected text or the letter after the cursor in uppercase.

&Ctrl;&Shift;U Tools Lowercase

  Put the selected text or the letter after the cursor in lowercase.

&Alt;&Ctrl;U Tools Capitalize

  Capitalize the selected text or the current word.

&Ctrl;J Tools Join Lines

  Joins the selected lines, or the current line and the line below with one white space character as a separator. Leading/trailing white space on joined lines is removed in the affected ends.

Tools Apply Word Wrap

  Apply static word wrapping on all the document. That means that a new line of text will automatically start when the current line exceeds the length specified by the Wrap words at option in the Editing tab in Settings Configure Editor...

Tools External Tools

  This submenu contains all the external tools you have configured.

Menu items for the selected plugins are displayed at the end of this menu

## The Settings Menu

The Settings menu allows you to change the properties of the main window, such as showing/hiding toolbars, and provides access to the configuration dialogs.

Settings Show Toolbar

  When checked, this displays a movable toolbar containing buttons used to initiate frequently used commands. When unchecked the toolbar is hidden.

Settings Show Statusbar

  When checked, this displays a small bar at the bottom of the editor containing information about the status of the current document. When unchecked the status bar is hidden.

Settings Show Path

  When selected, this displays in the titlebar the path (its location in the file system) of the current document. When unchecked the path is hidden.

&Ctrl;&Shift;F Settings Full Screen Mode

  Toggles full screen display.

Settings Configure Shortcuts...

  Display the familiar &kde; Keyboard Shortcut Configuration Dialog.

Settings Configure Toolbars...

  Display the familiar &kde; Toolbar Configuration Dialog.

Settings Configure &kate;...

  Launch the Main Configuration Dialog

## The Help Menu

Apart from standard &kde; Help menu items described below you will have menu entries to show the Tip of the Day and the About Editor Component information.

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