Some Fundamentals
is very simple to use. Anyone that has used a text editor should have no problems.

Drag and Drop
uses the Drag and Drop protocol. Files may be dragged and dropped onto from the Desktop, , or some remote site opened in one of 's windows.

Command Line Options
Though may most often be started from the program menu, or a desktop icon, it can also be opened at the command line prompt of a terminal window. There are a few useful options that are available when doing this.

Specify a File
By specifying the path and name of a particular file the user can have open (or create) that file immediately upon startup.This option might look something like the following:

%kedit /home/myhome/docs/myfile.txt

Specify a file on the internet
The above-mentioned method could even be used to open files on the internet (if the user has an active connection at the time.) An example of this might look like the following:

%kedit ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/Welcome.msg

Other Command Line Options
The following command line help options are available
kedit --help 	 This lists the most basic options available at the command line.
kedit --help-qt 	 This lists the options available for changing the way interacts with .
kedit --help-kde 	 This lists the options available for changing the way interacts with .
kedit --help-all 	 This lists all of the command line options.
kedit --author 	 Lists 's authors in the terminal window
kedit --version 	 Lists version information for , , and . Also available through kedit -V

Key Bindings
Many of the key bindings (shortcuts) are configurable by way of the Settings menu. By default honors the following key bindings.
Key Binding	Action
Left Arrow	Move the cursor one character leftwards.
Right Arrow	Move the cursor one character rightwards.
Up Arrow	Move the cursor one line upwards
Down Arrow	Move the cursor one line downwards.
Page Up	Move the cursor one page upwards.
Page Down	Move the cursor one page downwards.
Backspace	Delete the character to the left of the cursor.
Home	Move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
End	Move the cursor to the end of the line.
Delete	Delete the characer to the right of the cursor.
Left Arrow	Mark text one character leftwards.
Right Arrow	Mark text one character rightwards.
A	Select all the text in the document.
B	Move the cursor one character leftwards.
C	Copy the marked text to the clipboard.
D	Delete the character to the right of the cursor.
E	Move the cursor to the end of the line.
F	Search for text in the document.
H	Delete the characer to the left of the cursor.
K	Create a new document
N	Move the cursor one line downwards.
P	Print.
V	Paste the clipboard text into the document at the text cursor position.
X	Cut the marked text, copying it to the clipboard.
Y	Yank (paste) the content of the kill-buffer (clipboard) into the document, at the current cursor position.