KWrite

KWrite
File:KWrite Icon 64px (Breeze).svg
File:KWrite 21.12.0 screenshot.png
Developers	KDE (Christoph Cullmann, Anders Lund, Joseph Wenninger, Hamish Rodda, et al.)
Repository	invent.kde.org/utilities/kate
Written in	C++
Engine
Operating system	Linux
Type	Text editor
License	LGPL
Website	apps.kde.org/kwrite/

File:Kwrite block selection.png

A screenshot illustrating block selection mode

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

See also

• Kate
• Comparison of text editors

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