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

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

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

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

This copies the currently selected text to the clipboard as HTML.

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

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

Deselects the selected text in the editor if any.

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.

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 KWrite's settings dialog.

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.

This opens the incremental search bar at the bottom of the editor window. On the left side of the bar is 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 modify the search behavior by selecting different Options: The Highlight all option highlights all matches in the document. Selecting Match case will limit finds to entries that match the case (upper or lower) of each of the characters in the search pattern. The From cursor option begins the search from the current position of the cursor within the document rather than from the beginning.

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

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

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

This command opens the power search and replace bar. On the upper left side of the bar is 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 Alt+1, Whole wordsAlt+2, Escape sequencesAlt+3 or Regular expressionAlt+4.

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 on the right side of the bar. The Highlight all option highlights all matches in the document. Selecting Match case will limit finds to entries that match the case (upper or lower) of each of the characters in the search pattern. The From cursor option begins the search from the current position of the cursor within the document rather than from the beginning. Selection only will search and replace within the current selection only.

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

Finds next occurrence of selected text.

Finds previous occurrence of selected text.

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 icon on the left side of the bar.