On Wednesday 21 December 2016 14.01:08 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> The default session is actually hardwired in Kate's code (up to R14.0.x
> series). Even if you delete it, it will be recreated.
> Cheers
>   Michele

I haven't looked at the code, but it seems so far that if I create (save) a 
session with my settings, then delete the default session and rename the 
saved one to default, it works (so I'd guess the code checks for 
default.katesession and only recreates it if missing).

Thierry