# The &kwrite; Handbook

## Introduction

&kwrite; is more than a text editor by &kde;. It is meant to be a programmer's editor, and could be considered as at least a partial alternative to more powerful editors. It may be best used in conjunction with &konqueror; or &dolphin; for source file browsing for different languages. &kwrite; also works very well as a simple text editor. One of &kwrite;'s main features is the colorized syntax, customized for many different programming languages such as: C/C++, &Java;, Python, Perl, Bash, Modula 2, &HTML;, and Ada. &kwrite; has a single document interface (SDI) allowing you to edit one file at the time per window.

&kwrite; is a simple interface to the &katepart; component also used by &kate;, KDevelop, and other applications from &kde; that require advanced text editing. Therefore, complete documentation for all the features of &kwrite; can be found in the &katepart; Handbook.

## Credits and License

&kwrite; Copyright 2001-2014 by the &kate; team.

Based on the original &kwrite;, which was Copyright 2000 by Jochen Wilhelmy digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de

Contributions:

- &Christoph.Cullmann; &Christoph.Cullmann.mail;

- Michael Bartl michael.bartl1@chello.at

- Phlip phlip_cpp@my-deja.com

- &Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;

- Matt Newell newellm@proaxis.com

- &Joseph.Wenninger; &Joseph.Wenninger.mail;

- Jochen Wilhelmy digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de

- &Michael.Koch; &Michael.Koch.mail;

- &Christian.Gebauer; &Christian.Gebauer.mail;

- &Simon.Hausmann; &Simon.Hausmann.mail;

- Glen Parker glenebob@nwlink.com

- Scott Manson sdmanson@altel.net

- &John.Firebaugh; &John.Firebaugh.mail;

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