>   These look like kate plugins:
> 
> http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/kate-plugins.jpg
> 
>   These look like katepart plugins:
> 
> http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/katepart-plugins.jpg

Your second picture shows a unique Sort Kate plugin. What is the file name of the plugin? Is the Sort plugin installed in $HOME/share/apps/kate or $PREFIX/share/apps/kate/plugins? The global katepart plugins are installed at $PREFIX/share/apps/ktexteditor*.*.

Do you know from where you obtained that plugin? Is the plugin provided by your distro or something you installed from elsewhere?

If you can discern from where you obtained that plugin, then perhaps we can hack the code into a katepart plugin rather than a kate plugin. If we can do that then you/our desire to add sorting to kwrite will be possible.

Many of the kate plugins are installed from tdeaddons. The standard katepart plugins come from tdelibs.

Darrell