kate

KDE Text Editor. More information: https://kate-editor.org/.

• Launch Kate and open specific files:

kate {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

• Open a remote document in Kate:

kate {{https://example.com/path/to/file}}

• Launch Kate, creating a new instance even if one is already open:

kate --new

• Open a file in Kate with the cursor at the specific line:

kate --line {{line_number}} {{path/to/file}}

• Open a file in Kate with the cursor at the specific line and column:

kate --line {{line_number}} --column {{column_number}} {{path/to/file}}

• Launch Kate, creating a new temporary file with contents read from stdin:

cat {{path/to/file}} | kate --stdin

• Display help:

kate --help