Opens another instance of Kate. The new instance will be identical to your previous instance.

Activates the next tab in the tabbar.

Activates the previous tab in the tabbar.

Show a search field and a list of opened files in the editor area. While entering text in the search field the document names and document URLs are searched for matching text. While entering text in the search field you can use the cursor keys Up and Down to navigate in the list view. Pressing the Enter key or double clicking on an item in the list switches the view to the document selected in the list view. This makes switching between documents easier, if there are a lot of them open.

This action is available also using the icon at the top right of the editor window.

Focus the previous document view, if you have split the editor area in more views.

Focus the next document view, if you have split the editor area in more views.

Focus the split view intuitively on the left, using the cursor position to disambiguate if necessary.

Focus the split view intuitively on the right, using the cursor position to disambiguate if necessary.

Focus the split view intuitively upward, using the cursor position to disambiguate if necessary.

Focus the split view intuitively downward, using the cursor position to disambiguate if necessary.

This will split the frame (which may be the main editing area) in two equally sized frames, the new one to the left of the current one. The new frame gets the focus, and will display the same document as the old one.

See also Working with the Kate MDI.

Splits the current frame (which may be the main editing area) in two equally sized frames, the new one below the current one. The new frame gets the focus, and displays the same document as the old one.

See also Working with the Kate MDI

This will split the currently active view vertically into two views and move the currently active document to right view.

See also Working with the Kate MDI.

This will split the currently active view horizontally into two views and move the currently active document to view below.

See also Working with the Kate MDI

Switch between horizontal and vertical split.

Closes the active frame, which can be identified as the one displaying a blinking cursor. This is disabled, if there is only one frame (the main editing area).

No documents get closed by closing a frame – they will still be available in the View Menu as well as in the File List.

See also Working with the Kate MDI

Closes all frames except the active frame (the one with a blinking cursor). This is disabled, if there is only one frame (the main editing area).

No documents get closed by closing a frame – they will still be available in the View Menu as well as in the File List.

This hides all split views except the currently active one.

When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two vertically split documents further left.

When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two vertically split documents further right.

When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two horizontally split documents further up.

When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two horizontally split documents further down.

This command will toggle the display of the built-in command line.

This increases the display font size.

This decreases the display font size.

This menu lists the available color schemes. You can change the schema for the current view here, to change the default schema you need to use the Fonts & Colors page of the config dialog.

Toggles dynamic word wrap in the current view. Dynamic word wrap makes all the text in a view visible without the need for horizontal scrolling by rendering one actual line on more visual lines as needed.

Choose when and how the dynamic word wrap indicators should be displayed. This is only available if the Dynamic Word Wrap option is checked.

Toggles the display of a vertical line indicating the position of the wrap width as configured in the config dialog. This feature requires that you use a true fixed-width font.

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.

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.

Toggles the visualization of bookmarks (and other marks) on the vertical scrollbar. When enabled, a mark is represented by a thin line in the mark color at the scrollbar, clicking the middle mouse button on the line will scroll the view to a position near the mark.

This will replace the scrollbar with a visualization of the current document. For more information on the scrollbar minimap, see the Scrollbar Minimap section of the KatePart Handbook.

These options pertain to code folding:

Show/hide bounding box around non-printable spaces.