File → Save (Ctrl+S)

This saves the current document. If there has already been a save of the document then this will overwrite the previously saved file without asking for the user's consent. If it is the first save of a new document the save as dialog (described below) will be invoked.

File → Save As...

This allows a document to be saved with a new file name.

File → Reload (F5)

Reloads the active file from disk. This command is useful if another program or process has changed the file while you have it open in Krusader.

File → Print... (Ctrl+P)

Opens a simple print dialog allowing the user to specify what, where, and how to print.

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.

Edit → Undo (Ctrl+Z)

This is used to eliminate or reverse the most recent user action or operation.

Edit → Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z)

This will reverse the most recent change (if any) made using Undo

Edit → Cut (Ctrl+X)

This command deletes the current selection and places it on the clipboard. The clipboard is a feature that works invisibly to provide a way to transfer data between applications.

Edit → Copy (Ctrl+C)

This copies the currently selected text to the clipboard so that it may be pasted elsewhere. The clipboard is a feature that works invisibly to provide a way to transfer data between applications.

Edit → Paste (Ctrl+V)

This will insert the contents of the clipboard at the cursor position. The clipboard is a feature that works invisibly to provide a way to transfer data between applications.

Edit → Copy as HTML

This copies the currently selected text to the clipboard as HTML. This item is only displayed when the plugin Exporter is loaded.

Edit → Select All (Ctrl+A)

This will select the entire document. This could be very useful for copying the entire file to another application.

Edit → Deselect (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Deselects the selected text in the editor if any.

Edit → Block Selection Mode (Ctrl+Shift+B)

Toggles Selection Mode. When the Selection Mode is BLOCK, you can make vertical selections, e.g. select column 5 to 10 in lines 9 to 15. The status bar shows the current state of the Selection Mode, either BLOCK or LINE.

Edit → VI input Mode (Meta+Ctrl+V)

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 Krusader's settings dialog.

Edit → Overwrite Mode (Ins)

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... (Ctrl+F)

This opens the incremental search bar at the bottom of the editor window. On the left side of the bar is a button with an icon to close the bar, followed by a small text box for entering the search pattern.

When you start entering characters of your search pattern, the search starts immediately. If there is a match in the text this is highlighted and the background color of the entry field changes to light green. If the search pattern does not match any string in the text, this is indicated by a light red background color of the entry field and Not found is displayed at the right side of the bar.

Use the Next or Previous button to jump to the next or previous match in the document.

You can choose whether the search should be case sensitive. Selecting Match Case will limit finds to entries that match the case (upper or lower) of each of the characters in the search pattern.

Click on the button with a green arrow icon at the right side of the incremental search bar to switch to the power search and replace bar.

Edit → Find Next (F3)

This repeats the last find operation, if any, without calling the incremental search bar.

Edit → Find Previous (Shift+F3)

This repeats the last find operation, if any, without calling the incremental search bar, and searching backwards instead of forwards through the document.

Edit → Replace... (Ctrl+R)

This command opens the power search and replace bar. On the upper left side of the bar is a button with an icon to close the bar, followed by a small text box for entering the search pattern.

You can control the search mode by selecting Plain text, Whole words, Escape sequences or Regular expression from the drop down box.

If Escape sequences or Regular expression are selected, the Add... menuitem at the bottom of the context menu of the text boxes will be enabled and allows you to add escape sequences or regular expression items to the search or replace pattern from predefined lists.

Use the Next or Previous button to jump to the next or previous match in the document.

Enter the text to replace with in the text box labeled Replace and click the Replace button to replace only the highlighted text or the Replace All button to replace the search text in the whole document.

You can modify the search and replace behavior by selecting different options at the bottom of the bar. Selecting Match Case will limit finds to entries that match the case (upper or lower) of each of the characters in the search pattern. Selection Only will search and replace within the current selection only. The Find All button highlights all matches in the document and shows the number of found matches in a small popup.

Click on the button with a green arrow icon at the right side of the power search and replace bar to switch to the incremental search bar.

Edit → Find Selected (Ctrl+H)

Finds next occurrence of selected text.

Edit → Find Selected Backwards (Ctrl+Shift+H)

Finds previous occurrence of selected text.

Edit → Go to Line... (Ctrl+G)

This opens the goto line bar at the bottom of the window which is used to have the cursor jump to a particular line (specified by number) in the document. The line number may be entered directly into the text box or graphically by clicking on the up or down arrow spin controls at the side of the text box. The little up arrow will increase the line number and the down arrow decrease it. Close the bar with a click on the button with an icon on the left side of the bar.

View → New Window

Create another window containing the current document. All changes to the document in one window are reflected in the other window and vice versa.

View → Switch to Command Line (F7)

Displays the Katepart command line at the bottom of the window. In the command line, type help to get help and help list to get a list of commands.

View → Show the Javascript Console

This opens a tool view that allows you to run Javascript code interactively. For more information, see Extending Kate with Scripts

View → Schema

Select a font schema.

View → Dynamic Word Wrap (F10)

The text lines will be wrapped at the view border on the screen.

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

If this option is checked, a vertical line will be drawn at the word wrap column as defined in the Settings → Configure Editor... in the Editing tab. Please note that the word wrap marker is only drawn if you use a fixed pitch font.

View → Show Icon Border (F6)

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. The Icon Border indicates the positions of the marked lines in the editor.

View → Show Line Numbers (F11)

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

If this option is checked, the view will show marks on the vertical scrollbar. The marks are equivalent to the marks on the Icon Border.

View → Show Folding Markers (F9)

If this option is checked, the marks for code folding will be shown.

View → Code Folding

These options pertain to code folding:

Show Folding Markers (F9)

Toggles the display of the folding marker pane in the left side of the view.

Fold Current Node

Collapse the region that contains the cursor.

Unfold Current Node

Expand the region that contains the cursor.

Fold Toplevel Nodes (Ctrl+Shift+-)

Collapse all toplevel regions in the document. Click on the right pointing triangle to expand all toplevel regions.

Enlarge Font

This increases the display font size.

Shrink Font

This decreases the display font size.

Bookmarks → Set Bookmark (Ctrl+B)

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

Bookmarks → Clear All Bookmarks

This command will remove all the markers from the document as well as the list of markers which is appended at the bottom of this menu item.

Bookmarks → Previous (Alt+PgUp)

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.

Bookmarks → Next (Alt+PgDown)

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.

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 Editor... 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 → Invoke Code Completion (Ctrl+Space)

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.

Tools → Automatic Spell Checking (Ctrl+Shift+O)

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.

Note

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 with the help page for this dialog.

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 e.g. for automatic spellcheck of text in different languages.

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.

Tools → Comment (Ctrl+D)

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

Tools → Uncomment (Ctrl+Shift+D)

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.

Tools → Uppercase (Ctrl+U)

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

Tools → Lowercase (Ctrl+Shift+U)

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

Tools → Capitalize (Ctrl+Alt+U)

Capitalize the selected text or the current word.

Tools → Join Lines (Ctrl+J)

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...

Settings → Configure Editor...

This menu item opens a dialog whereby several different settings may be adjusted.

KrViewer → Generic viewer (Ctrl+Shift+G)

Krusader's internal viewer is actually part of Konqueror, which can basically view every file type viewable by Konqueror (e.g. display pictures, play music, show the content of an archive).

KrViewer → Text viewer (Ctrl+Shift+T)

View the file in text mode.

KrViewer → Hex viewer (Ctrl+Shift+H)

View the file in hex mode.

KrViewer → Lister (Ctrl+Shift+L)

Fast text/hex viewer for huge filesizes, done by Krusader lister.

KrViewer → Text editor (Ctrl+Shift+E)

Edit the file in text mode.

KrViewer → Detach Tab (Ctrl+Shift+D)

Detach browsing Tab and open in a new window.

KrViewer → Quit (Ctrl+Q)

Closes Krusader's viewer/editor window.

Editor Component Plugins

AutoBrace

The autobrace plugin supersedes the Krusader internal “Auto Brackets” feature. It automatically inserts a closing brace } at the beginning of the next line after ending a line with an opening one { and pressing the Enter key.

Data Tools

Enables data tools like thesaurus and spell check (if installed). Data tools are only available when text is selected, or when the right mouse button is clicked over a word. If no data tools are offered even when text is selected, you need to install them. If this plugin is enabled and data tools are installed, additional items appear at the end of the context menu.

Exporter

This command allows you to export the current document with all highlighting information into a HTML document using File → Export as HTML. Additionally you can use Edit → Copy as HTML to copy the currently selected text as HTML to the system clipboard.

IconInserter

The icon inserter plugin is only of use for KDE developers: It adds an item Insert KIcon-Code into the context menu of the editor. If activated, the Plasma™'s icon chooser opens (showing application icons, action icons etc...). If you click on it, the file name without file extension will be inserted as text. Useful only for setting icons via KDE Frameworks™ through the KIcon() class.

Insane (not ZEN) HTML coding (light edition)

A plugin, which does zen-coding like selector completion. For more information see Zen Coding.

Insert File

This plugin allows you to insert any readable file at the cursor position. If enabled, the Tools menu has an additional menu item Insert File.