KEdit is the default text editor for the KDE Desktop. It is a small editor which can be used with Konqueror for text and configuration file browsing. KEdit also serves well for creating small plain text documents. It is not meant to be a programmers editor, in particular it is not meant to replace any of the more powerful editors such as KWrite, XEmacs or Emacs. KEdit's functionality will intentionally remain rather limited to ensure a reasonably fast start.
KEdit is packaged as part of the kdeutils package. For more information on installing and compiling KDE please see www.kde.org.