Sometimes when I use Kile to open tex files, kile just simply cannot edit them. I can move the cursor freely but cannot type in anything. In this case, you just need to uncheck Tools -> Read Only Mode.

If the read-only problem is caused by ‘The file xxx.tex was opened and contained too long lines (more than 1 024 characters). Too long lines were wrapped and the document is set to read-only mode, as saving will modify its content.’, you may walk around this by setting the line lenght to 0, under Settings -> Configure Kile -> Open/Save -> Line Lenght Limit.

The wield case I met is that my kile didn’t have menu bar, although kate has that. I searched online and found out that you can re-enable the menu bar by editing the kilerc under ~/.kde/share/config/. Changing ‘menubar=Disabled’ to ‘Enabled’ would make the menu bar re-appear.