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The Tools Menu

Tools → Read Only Mode

Set the current document to Read Only mode. This prevents any text addition and any changes in the document formatting.

Tools → Mode

Choose the filetype scheme you prefer for the active document. This overwrites the global filetype mode set in Settings → Configure Editor... in the Filetypes tab for your current document only.

Tools → Highlighting

Choose the Highlighting scheme you prefer for the active document. This overwrites the global highlighting mode set in Settings → Configure Editor... for your current document only.

Tools → Indentation

Choose the style of indentation you want for your active document. This overwrites the global indentation mode set in Settings → Configure Editor... for your current document only.

Tools → Encoding

You can overwrite the default encoding set in Settings → Configure Editor... in the Open/Save page to set a different encoding for your current document. The encoding you set here will be only valid for your current document.

Tools → End of Line

Choose your preferred end of line mode for your active document. This overwrites the global end of line mode set in Settings → Configure Editor... for your current document only.

Tools → Add Byte Mark Order (BOM)

Checking this action you can explicitly add a byte order mark for unicode encoded documents. The byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character used to signal the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream, for more information see Byte Order Mark.

Tools → Scripts

This submenu contains a list of all scripted actions. The list can easily be modified by writing your own scripts. This way, KatePart can be extended with user-defined tools.

Tools → Scripts → Navigation
Tools → Scripts → Navigation → Move cursor to previous matching indent (Alt+Shift+Up)

Moves the cursor to the first line above the current line that is indented at the same level as the current line.

Tools → Scripts → Navigation → Move cursor to next matching indent (Alt+Shift+Down)

Moves the cursor to the first line below the current line that is indented at the same level as the current line.

Tools → Scripts → Editing
Tools → Scripts → Editing → Sort Selected Text

Sorts the selected text or whole document in ascending order.

Tools → Scripts → Editing → Move Lines Down (Ctrl+Shift+Down)

Move selected lines down.

Tools → Scripts → Editing → Move Lines Up (Ctrl+Shift+Up)

Move selected lines up.

Tools → Scripts → Editing → Duplicate Selected Lines Down (Ctrl+Alt+Down)

Duplicates the selected lines down.

Tools → Scripts → Editing → Duplicate Selected Lines Up (Ctrl+Alt+Up)

Duplicates the selected lines up.

Tools → Scripts → Editing → URI-encode selected text

Encodes the selected text so that it can be used as part of a query string in a URL, replacing the selection with the encoded text.

Tools → Scripts → Editing → URI-decode selected text

If part of the query string of a URL is selected, this will decode it and replace the selection with the original raw text.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet
Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Expand abbreviation

Converts the selected text to a pair of opening and closing HTML or XML tags. For example, if div is selected, this item will replace that with <div></div>.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Wrap with tag

Wraps the selected text with the tag provided on the command line.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Move cursor to matching tag

If the cursor is inside an opening HTML/XML tag, this item will move it to the closing tag. If the cursor is inside the closing tag, it will instead move it to the opening tag.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Select HTML/XML tag contents inwards

When the cursor is inside a pair of HTML/XML tags, this option will change the selection to include the contents of those HTML/XML tags, without selecting the tags themselves.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Select HTML/XML tag contents outwards

When the cursor is inside a pair of HTML/XML tags, this item will change the selection to include the contents of those HTML/XML tags, including the tags themselves.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Toggle Comment

If the selected portion is not a comment, this item will enclose that portion in HTML/XML comments (e.g. <!-- selected text -->). If the selected portion is a comment, the comment tags will be removed instead.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Delete tag under cursor

If the cursor is presently inside a HTML/XML tag, this item will delete the entire tag.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Decrement number by 1

This item will subtract one from the currently selected text, if it is a number. For example, if 5 is selected, it will become 4.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Decrement number by 10

This item will subtract 10 from the currently selected text, if it is a number. For example, if 15 is selected, it will become 5.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Decrement number by 0.1

This item will subtract 0.1 from the currently selected text, if it is a number. For example, if 4.5 is selected, it will become 4.4.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Increment number by 1

This item will add one to the currently selected text, if it is a number. For example, if 5 is selected, it will become 6.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Increment number by 10

This item will add 10 to the currently selected text, if it is a number. For example, if 5 is selected, it will become 15.

Tools → Scripts → Emmet → Increment number by 0.1

This item will add 0.1 to the currently selected text, if it is a number. For example, if 4.5 is selected, it will become 4.6.

Tools → Invoke Code Completion (Ctrl+Space)

Manually invoke command completion, usually by using a shortcut bound to this action.

Tools → Word Completion

Reuse Word Below (Ctrl+9) and Reuse Word Above (Ctrl+8) complete the currently typed text by searching for similar words backward or forward from the current cursor position. Shell Completion pops up a completion box with matching entries.

Tools → Spelling → Automatic Spell Checking (Ctrl+Shift+O)

When Automatic Spell Checking is enabled, wrongly spelled text is underlined in the document on-the-fly.

Tools → Spelling → Spelling...

This initiates the spellchecking program - a program designed to help the user catch and correct any spelling errors. Clicking on this entry will start the checker and bring up the speller dialog box through which the user can control the process. There are four settings lined up vertically in the center of the dialog with their corresponding labels just to the left. Starting at the top they are:

Unknown word:

Here, the spellchecker indicates the word currently under consideration. This happens when the checker encounters a word not in its dictionary - a file containing a list of correctly spelled words against which it compares each word in the editor.

Replace with:

If the checker has any similar words in its dictionary the first one will be listed here. The user can accept the suggestion, type in his or her own correction, or choose a different suggestion from the next box.

Language:

If you have installed multiple dictionaries, here you can select which dictionary/language should be used.

On the right side of the dialog box are 6 buttons that allow the user to control the spellcheck process. They are:

Add to Dictionary

Pressing this button adds the Unknown word to the checker's dictionary. This means that in the future the checker will always consider this word to be correctly spelled.

Suggest

The checker may list here a number of possible replacements for the word under consideration. Clicking on any one of the suggestions will cause that word to be entered in the Replace with box, above.

Replace

This button has the checker replace the word under consideration in the document with the word in the Replace with box.

Replace All

This button causes the checker to replace not only the current Unknown word: but to automatically make the same substitution for any other occurrences of this Unknown word in the document.

Ignore

Activating this button will have the checker move on without making any changes.

Ignore All

This button tells the checker to do nothing with the current Unknown word: and to pass over any other instances of the same word.

Note

This only applies to the current spellcheck run. If the checker is run again later it will stop on this same word.

Three more buttons are located horizontally along the bottom of the spellcheck dialog. They are:

Help

This invokes the KDE help system with the help page for this dialog.

Finished

This button ends the spellcheck process, and returns to the document.

Cancel

This button cancels the spellcheck process, all modifications are reverted, and you will return to your document.

Tools → Spelling → Spelling (from cursor)...

This initiates the spellchecking program but it starts where your cursor is instead of at the beginning of the document.

Tools → Spelling → Spellcheck Selection...

Spellchecks the current selection.

Tools → Spelling → Change Dictionary

Displays a drop down box with all available dictionaries for spellchecking at the bottom of the editor window. This allows easy switching of the spellcheck dictionary e.g. for automatic spellcheck of text in different languages.