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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How do I configure Geany to do code completion for Rust?

I am trying to learn Rust, and I like Geany. I don't know how to do code completion with Geany. I have all of the settings turned on for it, but it only recognises C++ syntax for code completion/assist, not Rust. How can I fix this?
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How do I integrate Pylint with Geany so that I can use Geany as a python IDE?

http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/using-pylint-in-geany#comments This blog says to set build command as pylint -r no "%f" and set a custom error regex (W|E|F):([0-9]+):(.*) The commenter suggests that with…
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How can I debug C in Geany?

I've googled it, but every result I got said: add a debugger plugin from Plugin manager, but there is not any option for a debugger plugin. How can I solve this problem? I use Ubuntu.
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How to add custom template in Geany?

How can I load my custom template in Geany? Or edit the exiting ones? Is there any wild-card or tag to load dates, names automatically?
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Line feed regular expression doesn't work in Geany

I want to detect line feed with Geany in Ubuntu. I used regular expressions such as \n , \r and \r\n, but it doesn't detect anything. There are some line ending settings that I also try to change to make it work, but still no success: And…
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Geany: Can we open a website link from geany text editor?

I am a big fan of Geany text editor. I am using it to write Python, C and as a simple text editor. My question is following: Suppose I have opened a file example.txt and it contains: https://www.youtube.com/ www.youtube.com Is there any way I can…
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How to set multiple indentation widths in Geany?

I use Geany mainly for Python, so I've set Indent Type to Spaces and Indent Width to 4. But when working with HTML, I'd like to use 2 spaces. Is there any way to tell Geany to automatically switch to 2 spaces when working with HTML documents instead…
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How to increase line padding in Geany IDE?

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…
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How to add more than 4 build " independent commands " in Geany text editor? (inside Build > Set Build Commands)

In geany text editor we can add our custom commands under BUILD menu. For example, to reformat the c-program source codes i did this: Build > Set Build Commands > Independent command Label = Reformat C code Command = astyle -A1 -Y %f …
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How to use GDB plugin in Geany?

I have installed GDB plugin in Geany, which shows a tab as Debug. I am OK to use GDB in terminal, but cannot figure our a way using that Debug tab. Opening the tab, I can see several windows. I loaded an binary file into Target tab, then run it.…
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How to Add tab space to multilple line at the same time in any text editor

If you select a text you can add multiple tab spaces to the all lines simultaneously.
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How to allow code-folding on Geany IDE?

Is there any way to fold all of functions at one time on Geany IDE? Is there any way to do that? I am looking for any option which let my Geany IDE to fold all of the functions at one time.
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Forcing a type of syntax highlighting in geany with an in-source comment?

I often use assembly for various CPUs using geany as the editor. My problem that I can't assign syntax highlight schemes quite well according to file name extensions like .asm, as I would need other scheme in two different files having the very same…
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Auto-correct XML indentation in Geany

My problem is auto-formatting/indenting XML in Geany, when XML is not properly indented or has no indentation at all. As I see no Geany plugins for this purpose, I am thinking about using a custom command through Edit > Format > Send Selection To. I…
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Need clarification about certain terms used to do with compiling C files

I am learning C with the GCC compiler and Geany (Arch Linux, if it makes a difference). However, I am seeing the words compile and build used interchangeably, both in Geany and on the internet. I am asking for clarification that the way I understand…
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