x11/kde-applications/kate 26.08.1 OpenBSD

KDE advanced text editor

System: OpenBSD
Repository: OpenBSD ports
Maintainer: Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]>
Categories: editors, x11/kde-applications

Description

Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some prelimentary scripting support.

Features:

MDI, window splitting, window tabbing
Spell checking
CR, CRLF, LF newline support
Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc.)
Encoding conversion
Regular expression based find & replace
Powerful syntax highlighting and bracket matching
Code and text folding
Infinite undo/redo support
Block selection mode
Auto indentation
Auto completion support
Shell integration
Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.) using kioslaves
Plugin architecture for the application and editor component
Customizable shortcuts
Integrated command line
Scriptable using JavaScript

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 26.08.2, as upstream numbers it.

System	Port	Version	Vulnerabilities	Status	Maintainer	Last update
OpenBSD	x11/kde-applications/kate	26.08.1	no data	-	Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]>	-
FreeBSD	editors/kate by name	26.08.2 newest	none known	-	[email protected]	2026-10-08
NetBSD	editors/kate by name	26.08.0	none known	-	-	2026-09-29
DragonFly	editors/kate by name	25.04.2	none known	-	[email protected]	-
MidnightBSD	editors/kate by name		no data	-	-	2026-08-07
HardenedBSD	editors/kate by name	26.08.1	no data	-	[email protected]	-
GhostBSD	editors/kate by name	26.08.1	no data	-	[email protected]	-

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add kate

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11/kde-applications/kate && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["x11/kde-applications/kate"]
  u0["devel/kdevelop"] --> me
  u1["editors/kile"] --> me
  u2["meta/kde"] --> me
  me --> d0["devel/desktop-file-utils"]
  me --> d1["devel/kf6/attica"]
  me --> d2["devel/kf6/karchive"]
  me --> d3["devel/kf6/kbookmarks"]
  me --> d4["devel/kf6/kcolorscheme"]
  me --> d5["devel/kf6/kcompletion"]
  me --> d6["devel/kf6/kconfig"]
  me --> d7["devel/kf6/kconfigwidgets"]
  me -.-> dmore(["29 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Build dependencies 9

Run dependencies 37

Required by 3