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<author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author>
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<title>Working with Plug-ins</title>

<para>Kate is using two different forms of plug-ins, namely plug-ins for the
&kate; application and plug-ins for the &kate; editor component. The latter are
available to any application using the editor component, such as KDevelop,
Quanta, Kile, Kwrite and many others, while application plug-ins are specific
to the &kate; application.</para>

<para>You can enable both types of plug-ins in the <link
linkend="configuring-kate-configdialog">configuration dialog</link>, which also
provides access to additional configuration options for plug-ins that requires
that.</para>

<para>There are many plugins for various purposes available in the kdeaddons
module, and you can search the web for more. A few plugins are shipped with the
editor component, for doing word completion, automatic bookmarks, insert files,
thesaurus and word spell checking and incremental search.</para>

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