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 KDE 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:

% kwrite /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:

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

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

Key Bindings
Many of the key bindings (shortcuts) are configurable by way of the Settings menu. By default honors the following key bindings.
Insert	Toggle between Insert and Overwrite mode. When in insert mode the editor will add any typed characters to the text while pushing along any data to the right of the text cursor. Overwrite mode causes the entry of each character to eliminate the character immediately to the right of the text cursor.
Left Arrow	Move the cursor one character to the left
Right Arrow	Move the cursor one character to the right
Up Arrow	Move the cursor up one line
Down Arrow	Move the cursor down one line
Page Up	Move the cursor up one page
Page Down	Move the cursor down one page
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 character to the right of the cursor (or any selected text)
Left Arrow	Mark text one character to the left
Right Arrow	Mark text one character to the right
F1	Help
F1	What's this?
F	Find
F3	Find again
C	Copy the marked text to the clipboard.
M	Set a Bookmark
N	New document
P	Print
Q	Quit - close active copy of editor
R	Replace
S	Invokes the Save command.
V	Paste the clipboard text into line edit.
X	Delete the marked text and copy it to the clipboard.
Z	Undo
Z	Redo