On Thursday 21 January 2016, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I would guess parts of kate are integrated in
konqueror (as it
seems to be the default editor).
So removing kate seems at least very difficult. It is the default
embeded editor (and there is no other editor proposed in the list
in the ControlCenter. I can associate kedit with *.txt files, but
kate remains the default embeded editor.
This may explain why it's difficult (impossible?) to remove, but
I've never seen it respawning.
Konqueror > Settings > Configure Konqueroro > File Associations
put "txt" into "File name pattern"
expand "text" field; you'll see "plain"; click it
Now choose "Application Preference Order". You can move Kate down the
lines to get rid of it.
Hope that helps
Gerhard