| KWrite | |
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| Developers | KDE (Christoph Cullmann, Anders Lund, Joseph Wenninger, Hamish Rodda, et al.) |
| Stable release | 24.12.11 
/ 9 January 2025 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | apps |
| Repository | invent |
KWrite is a lightweight text editor developed by the KDE free software community. Since K Desktop Environment 3, Kwrite has been based on the Kate text editor and the KParts framework, allowing it to use many of Kate's features.
KParts technology
In KDE 2.x, KWrite did not use the KParts technology, which allows you to include one application in another. Later, KWrite was rewritten using this technology. For example, it allows the user to select Vim to be included in KWrite. Other features include a text editor based on Qt (Qt Designer based text editor) and advanced text editing in KDE (KDE advanced text editor - KATE). The latter is the standard option and is used by the KATE text editor.
Features
- Export to HTML, PDF, or PostScript formats
- Block selection mode (see screenshot)
- Code folding
- Bookmarks
- Syntax highlighting
- Encoding selection
- End-of-line mode selection (Unix, Windows, classic Mac OS)
- Word completion
- Supports Plugins
- Supports Vi input mode
External links
External links
- Homepage of KWrite
- KWrite user wiki
- Handbook
- Repositories:
- Kate/KWrite: Phabricator, cgit Archived 2019-06-16 at the Wayback Machine and GitHub (mirror)
- KTextEditor framework: Phabricator, cgit Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine and GitHub (mirror)
- KSyntaxHighlighting framework: Phabricator, cgit Archived 2019-01-31 at the Wayback Machine and GitHub (mirror)
- Bug tracking: in Kate/KWrite, in KTextEditor framework and in KSyntaxHighlighting framework