Its aim is to make the “Vim way” of text editing – and the Vim habits learned – available for programs using the Kate text editor as their internal editor. The goal of the VI mode is not to be a complete replacement for Vim and support all Vim’s features. This page is meant to be an updated overview of this work. A list of what’s missing is found at the bottom of the page. ![]() Most Vim users will already be productive in Kate’s VI mode. I have continued to maintain and further develop this code and the number of missing features from Vim are slowly decreasing. The project started as a Google Summer of Code project in 2008 – where all the basic functionality was written. Kate’s VI mode is a project to bring Vim-like, modal editing to the Kate text editor and by extension to other KDE programs who share the same editor component. This was the reason why the name had to be changed again – and the final name was Kate (KDE advanced text editor). Now all KDE users had access to our beloved text editor! …the only big problem then was that the pronunciation of Kant sounds misleading in the English language for some people. At that time Kant was officially included in the kdebase module of the KDE desktop as addon for the old KWrite application, which was quite a success. Time went on… …and Kant got more and more popular with new developers joining the project. This name was motivated by the philosopher Immanuel Kant and was supposed to be more neutral and more distinct compare to KEdit. Over the time other people joined the project, so that the name was changed from KCEdit to Kant. In the first month Kate was known as “KCEdit”, with C standing for Cullmann, the last name of the author. The Kate project started in December 2000 at. The editor component is part of the kdelibs package, while Kate is in kdesdk and KWrite in kdebase. In addition, we provide KWrite, a simple SDI editor shell which allows the user to select his/her favourite editor component. The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application. ![]() Kate | Get an Edge in Editing - The Kate Editor Homepage.
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