# Working with Plugins

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.

You can enable both types of plugins in the configuration dialog, which also provides access to additional configuration options for plugins that requires that.

There are many plugins for various purposes available in the tdeaddons 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.

You can find additional information about some of &kate;'s plugins in The Kate Plugins Handbook accessible from Help Plugins Handbook if the tdeaddons module has been installed on your system