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Kate for Mac

Feature-Packed Text Editor.

Free
In English
Version 23.04.3
4.5
Based on 2 user rates

Kate overview

Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files.

Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like.

What’s new in version 23.04.3

  • Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Kate for Mac

Free
In English
Version 23.04.3
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4.5

(4 Reviews of Kate)

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Tachy0n
Tachy0n
Aug 3 2023
23.04.3
0.0
Aug 3 2023
0.0
Version: 23.04.3
New link is https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/MacOS/job/Kate_Nightly_macos/
Just-Fred
Just-Fred
Aug 1 2023
23.04.3
0.0
Aug 1 2023
0.0
Version: 23.04.3
Thin it's not. After uncompressing the archive, Kate occupies 336.3 MB on disk. Contrast that with TextEdit, which weighs in at a paltry 1.8 MB! Erberle weighs in at a mere 9.2 MB. On the other hand, Atom (now defunct) weighed in at a hefty 658.5 MB! And that's before adding extensions to it. I'm going to give Kate a try, as I bounce between using vi in a terminal and TextEdit.
nik_pic
nik_pic
Aug 1 2023
22.12.2
0.0
Aug 1 2023
0.0
Version: 22.12.2
The download link shows me the 404 error: Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server.
evitan
evitan
Jul 21 2023
22.12.2
5.0
Jul 21 2023
5.0
Version: 22.12.2
This is the best text editor I have used, and I've used many having been writing code for 35 years. Better than Visual Studio, jEdit, BBEdit, TextPad and less bloated than other IDEs. Every time I do a system update I look at new options and this one is fantastic - it has all the features you want from a modern editor, has plugins extra stuff you might need and runs on multiple platforms so you can keep using the same tool when working on a different OS. It has a nice text zoom feature missing from some editors. The port to macOS works well but you will have to adapt to the different key combinations and maybe add some extra user defined ones if you use some features like block mode editing. If running macOS on Apple silicon then avoid version 23 which doesn't behave well with Rosseta 2.
evitan
evitan
Jul 21 2023
22.12.2
5.0
Jul 21 2023
5.0
Version: 22.12.2
M-Rick
M-Rick
Jul 2 2021
21.04.2
4.0
Jul 2 2021
4.0
Version: 21.04.2