# Chapter 1. Introduction

KWrite is more than a text editor for the KDE Desktop. It is meant to be a programmer's editor, and could be considered as at least a partial alternative to more powerful editors. It may be best used in conjunction with Konqueror for source file browsing for different languages. KWrite also works very well as a simple text editor. One of KWrite's main features is the colorized syntax, customized for many different programming languages such as: C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, Bash, Modula 2, HTML, and Ada.

# 1.1. Installation

KWrite is packaged as part of the kdeutils package. For more information on installing and compiling KDE please see www.kde.org.