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Kate: advanced text editor by KDE

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kate is KDE’s advanced text editor.

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 --new

Open a file with the cursor at the specific line:

kate --line line_number path/to/file

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

kate --line line_number --column column_number path/to/file

Create a file from stdin:

cat path/to/file | kate --stdin

Display help:

kate --help

More information: https://kate-editor.org/ .

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