Kate questions

[Eice]

Google isn't being very helpful, so I thought I'd ask here.

Is there any way to not make the sidebar show whenever Kate is started?
Can Kate be configured to have a tab bar on top, like how gedit does? If yes, how?

Thanks.

[FastGame]

The Kate Handbook might help http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdesdk/kate/index.html

The PDF version http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdesdk/kate/kate.pdf

[chronomatic]

Install Kwrite.