>>  I thought the kate sort plugin made it into the code. It isn't in kate in R14.
> When all is said and done, more often than not more is said than 
> done. What you see is as far as the request developed.
> Would be a nice addition.

This is in my "I would like to do, perhaps one day I will do" list, together with porting the Kgdb plugin from KDE4.
Be patient, one day it will be done :)

  Michele