As its default, Geany uses the standard GTK+ keybindings that most desktop users are familiar with. Although you can remap most keybindings to suit your taste, Geany cannot currently fully emulate Emacs or Vim, nor is it currently a goal of the core project developers to make it do so.
And if really necessary, there is a Vim-mode plugin: https://plugins.geany.org/vimode.html
Geany provides a tabbed main editor window, but does not support split windows in the core. There is a Split Window plugin which should work fine for viewing another document next to the main editor notebook. You can also run several instances of Geany simultaneously.
Case-insensitive forward incremental search is via the search field in the toolbar.
For reverse incremental search, start a forward search then use your key for Find Previous.
You can add a filetypes.Name.conf file with Geany 0.19 and use an existing filetype's syntax highlighting and tag parsing. See https://www.geany.org/manual/index.html#custom-filetypes.
Please see the HACKING document.
Yes! You can write your own plugins in C. You can also write Lua scripts
for Geany using the Lua plugin. See the Plugins page.
Also note the Format->Send Selection to command is useful for
piping text through a script/external program.
Geany reads the colors to use for syntax highlighting from filetype definition files. Detailed information on how to find and edit these files can be found in the manual.
There is a tool for configuring color schemes, and a set of dark color schemes available can be found in the Wiki.
For Geany 0.13 and 0.14, this is enabled by default and allows appending text with the last lines drawn at the top of the view. Since Geany 0.15, it is off by default and you can configure it in Geany's preferences dialog.
See Contribute to Development.
No, Geany doesn't support any remote file editing. But you can easily mount remote filesystems through FTP, SSH or whatever with Fuse or LUFS. This is even better because the remote filesystem will become available for all your applications transparently.
If you have GVfs (Gnome >= 2.22) you may already have a Fuse mountpoint
in ~/.gvfs/ which you can tell Geany to open remote files from, after
mounting the connection from a Gnome program such as nautilus.
To avoid slow responsiveness, it is recommended to disable checking files
for changes to not query the file's modification time. To do so, open the
preferences dialog and set Disk check timeout in the Files tab to 0 which
will disable it at all. Since Geany 0.16 disk file changes are always disabled
for remote files, so there is no need to disable this setting with Geany 0.16.
On Windows:
The default way to use English instead of your system's locale is to deselect the "Language Files" (aka translations) option when running the Windows installer.
In the case that you have already installed Geany, there are a few possible workarounds to consider:
The easiest way is to change the Geany shortcut that was created during the installation. It is recommended to create a copy of the Geany shortcut for the desired UI language.
To force English (en) UI language, for example, right-click on Geany shortcut
to open the Shortcut Properties dialog and in the Target field put:
cmd.exe /c "set ^"LANG=en^" & start /D ^"C:\installed-path\Geany\bin\^" geany.exe"
Adjust the C:\installed-path\Geany according to your Geany installation.
Take care to put the ^" (carrot-quote) as shown. This is the way to escape
the quotes-within-the-quotes. There is a blank space before geany.exe.
Optionally, click on Change Icon ... and browse to the Geany installation
folder, then to the Geany executable file: bin\geany.exe. Click on the
"Magic Lamp" icon.
Accept the Property changes; if Windows requires, confirm as Administrator. In general, this could be also done on user-level without need for Administrator rights.
Alternatively, you may download https://download.geany.org/contrib/geany_english.bat
and put it into the bin subdirectory in the folder where you have Geany installed,
next to Geany.exe. Then open the file, edit the line set LANG=C and replace C
with your the language code of your locale (e.g. 'nl for Dutch, 'pt_BR' for
'Portuguese Brazilian'). Save the file and execute it. It should start Geany
with the desired language assuming there is an existing translation.
See also the list of available translations.
On non-Windows systems:
Simply start Geany like this:
LANG=C geany
and of course, change "C" to your language code (see above) or set your locale specific environment variables accordingly.
If your system supports launcher shortcuts (for example, .desktop files),
then Geany's shortcut can be updated (created a new one) to add the LANG
setting as shown above. In case of .desktop files, this usually goes into
the Exec line.
It's possible it's a bug, but first try this:
make distclean
./autogen.sh
If there are still errors, contact the mailing list.
The symbol completion data for GTK/GLib symbols are just not in the default distribution anymore. Instead they can be downloaded separately besides other tag files.
For details about this change and download information, see GTK symbol completion data removed from Geany 0.16.
Open the preferences tab, Tools tab and enter the following command in the field Terminal:
urxvt -e sh -c
or
konsole -e sh -c
or (in case the above failed)
konsole --workdir . -e sh geany_run_script.sh
The project or general prefs for indentation only apply when opening new documents, because documents in your current session may have different overridden indent settings - i.e. you might want one document indented with tabs whilst another is open with spaces indentation. See the manual for details.
ʒeːniː
(pronounced like "genie") But of course, it's up to you how you pronounce it.
Please first have a look at our comprehensive manual. If that doesn't answer your question, the quickest and best way is to ask on the mailing list.