Since upgrading KDE from 3.5.8 to 3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. The bug has been already been reported and fixed upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158069 This is the one-line patch: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kate/part/katesupercursor.cpp?r1=777286&r2=777285&pathrev=777286&view=patch
*** Bug 213457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in CVS in kdelibs-3.5.9-r1.