tldr/pages/common/kate.md

kate

KDE's advanced text editor. More information: https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kate/kate/fundamentals.html#starting-from-the-command-line.

• Open specific files:

kate {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Open specific remote files:

kate {{https://example.com/path/to/file1 https://example.com/path/to/file2 ...}}

• Create a new editor instance even if one is already open:

kate {{[-n|--new]}}

• Open a file with the cursor at the specific line:

kate {{[-l|--line]}} {{line_number}} {{path/to/file}}

• Open a file with the cursor at the specific line and column:

kate {{[-l|--line]}} {{line_number}} {{[-c|--column]}} {{column_number}} {{path/to/file}}

• Create a file from stdin:

cat {{path/to/file}} | kate {{[-i|--stdin]}}

• Display help:

kate {{[-h|--help]}}