Kate editor behaviour

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Hello,
By far, Kate is my favorite editor to use when I am coding c and c++ codes.
One feature that I greatly dislike is that by default if I open another c++ files, instead of opening a new window, the editor keeps a single window with multiple documents.

I was wondering if it’s possible/how to disable this feature so there is one window per document.

Example

I open this.cpp and I have one kate editor open.
In another “virtual desktop” I open another.cpp, then a new window of kate editor opens.

Thanks for your time
-SJL

2

Start Kate with the -n or --new parameter.
To do that for opening files, use the menueditor to change Kate’s menu entry accordingly. This should then be respected whenever you open a file with Kate.

3

thank you for the quick reply, what do you mean by menueditor though?

4

kmenuedit, the editor for modifying the K-Menu entries.
Right-click on the K-Menu icon (application launcher, “start menu”) and choose “Edit menu entries…”.

5

it’s working perfectly! Thank you.