Questions tagged [geany]

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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Are negative lookbehind in regex searches possible in Geany?

Geany's documentation on negative assertions makes it look like they're possible. For reference, this works and gives me results: pcregrep -r "(?
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What is the location of the Geany preferences/settings files?

I've made quite a few changes to the preferences for my convenience. Now, I want to install it on several computers with the modified preferences. It would be far easier if I can just copy the preferences/settings file(s) from the modified…
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how to close geany terminal

Whenever a program finishes to run when executing it with geany, the terminal doesn't close. geany terminal waits for a keystroke to close. How do I change this behavior and make it close automatically when the program reaches it's end? Is there a…
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Geany keyboard shortcut for cycling through argument suggestions

I am a bit frustrated, editing a bigger C++ project with the otherwise really cool, lightweight editor Geany. I wondered if there is a keyboard shortcut for cycling through the argument suggestions that geany shows when opening a bracket for calling…
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Geany unable to execute Python

I'm not a great coder, in fact I'm just trying to learn, but I can't get Geany to regonise Python in my system (Windows 7) when I try to execute the program. When I click Execute, it opens a command prompt saying: 'python' is not recognized as an…
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How can I write to multiple lines simultaneously in Geany?

I want to modify the beginning of every line of a txt file in Geany. Somehow it is possible to write in multiple lines at the same time (maybe with box selection?). How to do this?
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In a Jupyter notebook, how can I scroll past the last cell?

This is a simple ergonomics question. There's an option in the editor Geany than enables the user to scroll past the last line displayed. This allows the user to, for example, bring the last line of code up to eye-level on a vertically-oriented…
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using geany with python virtual environment

I am just starting to set up virtual environments for my Python projects. Up to now I have used and like Geany for development and testing. When I set up my new virtual environment, what will I need to set in Geany to make sure it runs my Python…
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How to config Geany to build and execute at the same time?

I just started using Geany for a week. And always having to hit F9 to build and then hit F5 to run, it just sucks. So is there any way to config Geany so that it'll build and then execute immediately (like F9 in CodeBlocks) ?
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line too long error with columns

I'm trying to align text vertically with a delimiter in Geany text editor: idxMathExpress (MathArcCos _) = 120 idxMathExpress (MathArcSin _) = 130 idxMathExpress (MathArcTan _) = 140 I would like this block to be aligned like…
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"Go to file" feature in various editors

In TextMate there is a feature called "Go to file" that is used for file navigation. It is a box where you type the name of a file in your project and it will use fuzzy matching to generate a list of candidate files from which you can select. Other…
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Geany equivalent of ALT + 5 (minimize blocks) in Notepad++

In Notepad++ I can use the hotkey Alt+5 to minimize all the first child blocks (the little boxes with +/-). Does Geany have a way to do this? If not, is there a plugin that will let me create this functionality?
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Rstudio editor snippets

Does Rstudio have a mechanism to configure snippets of code, like Geany for example? For faster writing whole sections of user predefined frequent code. It is not exactly the same as TAB completion already built in rstudio. Example by mimicking…
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XDebug with Geany?

Is it possible to configure PHP XDebug with Geany? XDebug as in: http://xdebug.org/ and Geany as in: http://www.geany.org/ If it is possible, how can it be done?
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Geany intellisense like functionality for C++

Is there a plugin for Geany that will provide an Intellisense-like functionality for C++? Like when you press ctrl + spacebar all functions/members of the included libraries are shown or listed as hints? or when you type a few letters all methods or…
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