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Geany is a lightweight and fast IDE. It is using the GTK [2|3] toolkit while trying to keep only a low number of further dependencies from other packages.

Geany is a lightweight and fast IDE (integrated development environment). It was designed to have very few dependencies, and requires only the GTK 2 libraries to run.

It's based on Scintilla and is mostly written in C and C++.

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Custom syntax highlighting in Geany

I am trying to create custom syntax highlighting for Kivy '.kv' files in the Geany editor. Although the specific filetype seems irrelavant to the issue I'm having, as any efforts I make at getting syntax highlighting to work for a custom filetype…
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Move cursor to a new line after "Send Selection to Terminal" action in Geany

I set in geany a key shortcut to Send Selection to Terminal action which send the current line (or selection) to the build-in terminal (according to: shortcut to send selection to terminal in geany). Then I change send_selection_unsafe=false to…
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How can I configure Geany to compile and run my Python programs?

Under the Build menu, I can see 'Execute' option, but it is greyed out. The only option available is 'Set Includes and Arguments'. When I click that both fields are already filled out. What do I have to write there?
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How can I get Geany to show me the methods a library has when I press the '.' key?

In visual studio, I could just press ctrl+spacekey and the methods appeared. In Geany is there a way for me to get this functionality?
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Run a node.js server from Geany

A simple question: Is it possible to configure the Geany IDE so that Node.js servers can be run directly from Geany using the "Run" button?
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How to add existing project into Geany

I have an existing C++ project which is built with Gnu Make. I want to develop the source under Geany but am unable find a way to import it.
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Geany vs Eclipse for C development on large projects

I'm trying to find an IDE for C that will give me the same level of comfort I got used to from programming in Java. I heard good things about Geany (from related questions here on Stack Overflow), and am familiar with Eclipse from my work with Java,…
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Geany autocomplete Python constraints

How can I get Geany to autocomplete an object's constraints? For example, I type: self.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_ And I want the list of possible constraints to show up such as WIN_POS_NONE and WIN_POS_CENTER etc. NOTE: CTRL+SPACE or…
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JavaScript comment starting with /*!

My editor (Geany) changes the colour of a comment when a comment starts with /*!. What's the difference between /* ... */ and /*! ... */?
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C++11 Geany setup

I am learning C++ and I need to properly setup my compile and build commands in Geany for C++11. I thought I had them correct, but when using auto, I receive the following error: warning: ‘auto’ will change meaning in C++0x; please remove it…
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How to add Go support to Geany

I am trying to make syntax hightlighting and building options work for Geany, any advice?
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How can I disable automatic highlighting of the current line in Geany?

By default the current line is always highlighted in the Geany text editor. How can we disable this feature?
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Why does geany use #~ for comments in bash instead of just #?

When I select a block of text in Geany (editing a bash script) and hit Ctrl + E to comment, Geany inserts #~ at the beginning of every line, instead of just #. Why?
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Regular Expression to Remove Line Breaks from Specific Lines

I have a text file with each paragraph on its own line. Some of the paragraphs got split at the start of a word. For example: Books are an effective way to communicate across time, both from the past and into the future. I could use regular…
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Geany: Syntax highlighting for custom filetype for SOME words

Geany is a simple, fast and yet powerful text editor. It has quite strong support for syntax highlighting for almost all kinds of programming languages. I was wondering how to make a customized syntax highlighting for my special need program called…
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