Geanyuniq

Geanyuniq is a plugin for the Geany lightweight IDE. It adds two commands to automatically delete duplicate lines:

1. Delete Adjacent Duplicate Lines, which will leave only the first line in a sequence of duplicates.
2. Delete All Duplicate Lines, which removes all duplicates regardless of how they are arranged.

For example, consider a file containing this:

foo
bar
bar
bar
baz
baz
foo

After running "Delete Adjacent Duplicate Lines" on this document, the contents would be:

foo
bar
baz
foo

NOTE: There are still two occurances of the line whose content is just foo; Geanyuniq will only remove duplicate lines that are immediately next to each other.

However, after running "Delete All Duplicate Lines", the result is:

foo
bar
baz

Notice how this removes all duplicates.

Installation

At the moment, Geanyuniq is not available in any pre-packaged form, so you need to build it yourself. Luckily, that isn't too hard. The following steps should do it:

1. Grab the code (git clone git://github.com/unwind/geanyuniq.git)
2. Using a terminal, enter the top-level geanyuniq/ directory
3. Type make
4. There are two options here. If you just want to use the version of Geanyuniq you just built, and not keep updating it if the source changes, type sudo make install. If you want to keep the source (for updates, hacking, whatever), type sudo make install-dev.
5. If you went with the make install option, you can now delete the directory holding the source code.

Running Geanyuniq

By default, Geanyuniq does not assigns itself any keyboard shortcuts, but you can easily do this through Geany's main Preferences window.

So, to invoke Geanyuniq, use the two new menu items in the "Tools" menu, labelled "Delete Adjacent Duplicate Lines" and "Delete All Duplicate Lines".

Selection Handling

Either command will, when run, check for a selection and if one exists duplicates will only be deleted inside the selection.

Geanyuniq will consider the line that the selection starts on to be part of the selection, even if the selection starts somewhere in the middle of the line. It will also consider the line that the selection ends on to be the last line of the selection, i.e. the entire line might be removed if it's the same as the one before it.

Configuring Geanyuniq

Currently, Geanyuniq has no configuration options.

Feedback

Please contact the author, Emil Brink (by e-mailing <emil@obsession.se>) regarding any bugs, comments, or thoughts about Geanyuniq. Enjoy.