kate

KDE’s advanced text editor. More information: https://kate-editor.org/.

• Open specific files:

kate path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

• Open specific remote files:

kate https://example.com/path/to/file1 https://example.com/path/to/file2 ...

• Create a new editor instance even if one is already open:

kate --new

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

kate --line line_number path/to/file

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

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

• Create a file from stdin:

cat path/to/file | kate --stdin

• Display help:

kate --help