Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

[Richard Owlett]

On 09/17/2024 11:30 AM, Richard Troy wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> *QUESTION*
>> How do I start KATE as it would have been if it had never been run on 
>> this machine?
>>
> 
> Kate, as most utilities with personalizable attributes do, has an entry 
> in your home directory.
> 
> I've only tried kate once and haven't bothered wiht it since but I knew 
> I had done this so I went looking:
> 
> $ ls -A ~ | grep -i kate
> 
> The above revealed nothing.
> 
> The following, however, showed what you need to muck with:
> 
> $ ls -A ~/.* | grep -i kate
> 
> Presuming all that shows up is exclusively kate-the-editor related and 
> not something else (NOT a safe bet), you could remove all of it and it 
> should be as if you never had run it.
> 

I get:
> katemetainfos
> katepartrc
> katerc
> kateschemarc
> katesyntaxhighlightingrc
> katevirc

That all looks "safe" to remove.
Am I correct?