<chapter id="plugins"> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Anders.Lund; &Anders.Lund.mail;</author> <author>&tde-authors;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> </chapterinfo> <title>Working with Plugins</title> <para>Kate is using two different forms of plugins, namely plugins for the &kate; application and plugins 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 plugins are specific to the &kate; application.</para> <para>You can enable both types of plugins in the <link linkend="configuring-kate-configdialog">configuration dialog</link>, which also provides access to additional configuration options for plugins that requires that.</para> <para>There are many plugins for various purposes available in the <emphasis>tdeaddons</emphasis> module, and you can search the web for more. A few plugins are shipped with the editor component, for doing word completion, insert files, thesaurus and word spell checking and incremental search.</para> <para>You can find additional information about some of &kate;'s plugins in <emphasis>The Kate Plugins Handbook</emphasis> accessible from <menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guimenuitem>Plugins Handbook</guimenuitem></menuchoice> if the <emphasis>tdeaddons</emphasis> module has been installed on your system</para> </chapter>