How to increase line padding in Geany IDE?

Question

I am using geany, and I need to increase line padding, ie, space between consecutive lines.

For example, in sublime text, we can change padding by:

"line_padding_bottom": 2,
"line_padding_top": 2

How do we do it for Geany? I tried many options and menus, but there doesn't seem to be an option!

Here is an image illustrating the problem: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DmAAj.png

I think You can't add padding to font but as a workaround You can try to use different font with more padding like Latin Modern Mono. — Michal Przybylowicz, Apr 05 '16 at 17:11

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '17 at 04:22

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Go to Tools->Configuration Files->filetypes.common and search for line_height, and make as line_height=2;2;

answered Nov 27 '17 at 04:22

Mohamed Sameer

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '20 at 19:04

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Good answer, but you also need to uncomment [styling] line, if commented (mine was). So, configuration in filetypes.common should look like this:

[styling]
line_height=2;2;

answered Sep 12 '20 at 19:04

Viceman

In my case, the whole file was messed up with comments from geany etc. I had to remove everything except the two lines and then it started working. – Tyreal Jan 04 '21 at 11:36

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