Window, View, Document, Frame, Editor... What are they all in the terminology of Kate, and how do you get the most out of it? This chapter will explain all of that, and even more.
The Kate Main Window is a standard TDE application window, with the addition of side bars containing tool views. It has a Menubar with all the common menus, and some more, and a toolbar providing access to commonly used commands.
The most important part of the window is the Editing Area, by default displaying a single text editor component, in which you can work with your documents.
The docking capabilities of the window is used for the tool windows:
And possibly other tool views, for example provided by plugins.
Tool views can be positioned in any sidebar. To move a tool, right click its sidebar button and select the destination sidebar from the menu that appears.
A tool view can be marked as persistent. Selecting another tool view in the same sidebar will not hide any of the persistent tool views. To make a tool view persistent, right click its sidebar button and select the "Make persistent" entry from the menu that appears.
Each sidebar can contain more than one tool, so when a tool is persistant other tools can be shown simultaneously.
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