Setting up Kate

I just set up Kate for my pet side-project Chanslate so that other people wishing to contribute have an easy time.

It took me only a few minutes and it is delightfully easy to use.

Make a project

I just dropped a .kateproject file in the root folder with the following content:

{
  "name": "Chanslate",
  "files": [ { "git": 1 } ]
}

And we were good to go.

You can use svn or hg too.

Setting up Kate

Open the settings: Settings menu → Configure Kate.

Then I set up the following:

git can change files while editing

Get autocomplete

Whitespace safety

Optional goodies

vi mode

Solarized color scheme

Final view