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1. #GEANY DOCUMENTATION INSTALL#
2. #GEANY DOCUMENTATION FULL#
3. #GEANY DOCUMENTATION ZIP#
4. #GEANY DOCUMENTATION WINDOWS#

It seems to have no effect in some versions of Geany (perhaps its effective setting is automatically checked if “Type” = “Spaces”?). Note 2: It is not entirely clear what is up with setting “Tab key indents”. Note 1: It works only for documents opened after this change (not current ones), so the easiest way is probably to restart Geany. Menu Edit → Preferences → Editor → tab Indentation → Tab key indents. Menu Edit → Preferences → Editor → tab Indentation → Type. It works in the same way as in a web browser (e.g., Ctrl + + to zoom in). Note that there is a separate zoom level. The font, “Monospace Regular”, is OK (“Monospace Normal” on Windows). Menu View → Show Sidebar, to not checked. Menu View → Show Toolbar, to not checked. Menu View → Show Message Window, to not checked. In tab “Open With” (the last one), find “Geany” in one of the three lists, select it and press “Set as default”. txt file in a “Files” window (or Ctrl + I) and choose “Properties”. txt files open in the extremely irritating “Text Editor” (why did they have to change how Ctrl + F works?). “Vibrant” is probably the closest to the UltraEdit one. On Windows, copy to folder %ProgramFiles(x86)%/geany/colorschemes (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\data\colorschemes).Ĭhange the theme: menu View → Change Colour Scheme… → choose “Delt Dark” → press “Close”.Īlternative dark themes are: “Himbeere”, “InkPot”, “Kugel”, “Relesk’s MC” (darkblue background), “Monokai”, “Oblivion 2”, “Railcasts 2”, “Retro” (green text), “Sleepy Pastel”, “Solarized (dark)”, “Spyder Dark”, “Steampunk”, “Tango”, “Tinge”, “Vibrant”, and “Zenburn”.

#GEANY DOCUMENTATION ZIP#

It is, however, not enabled by default in older versions of Geany – extra files must be added to the installation (it is enabled with Geany 1.37.1 on Windows).ĭownload a set of themes from GitHub, uncompress the ZIP file, and copy the content of folder “colorschemes” to folder ~/.config/geany/colorschemes (about 35 files). Similar to UltraEdit, it is possible to use dark mode.

#GEANY DOCUMENTATION INSTALL#

It will install a number of plugins, including “Addons”. Note that it is available immediately there isn’t any need to restart Geany.įor Windows, use the EXE plugin installer. After this, there is a new menu command, menu Tools → Copy File Path. Install “Addons”, using the exact name from above:Įnable the plugin “Addons” in the Plugin Manager, menu Tools → Plugin Manager. Geany-plugin-addons - miscellaneous plugins for Geany

For example, the Geany plugin “Debugger” is available in Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), but not in Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) (on Ubuntu 16.04, the output includes “geany-plugin-debugger – debugger plugin for Geany”). Note that some plugins are not available in later versions of Ubuntu. The following is for Ubuntu/Debian from the command line.

#GEANY DOCUMENTATION FULL#

To get a menu item for copying the full path of the current document to the clipboard, install the plugin with the overly generic (meaningless) name “Addons”. As this may affect other things, the easiest is to make a BAT file that sets the environment variable and launches Geany (so the change is only for Geany). Note that in order to use the English version of Geany on a non-English version of Windows, the environment variable “LANG” must be set to “en”. Installation Ubuntu/Debian, from the terminalįor Windows, use the EXE installer. Though the focus is on Linux, the instructions also cover Windows. It also covers missing features in Geany. This blog post is intended to be step-by-step instructions for quickly getting up and running with Geany on a new system, in particular such that it works similar to UltraEdit (especially the keyboard shortcuts). But Geany is not nearly as clunky as Notepad++. I haven’t had a chance yet to review it, in particular if the bugs have been fixed.Īn alternative is Geany, and it is similar to Notepad++ on Windows. UltraEdit for Linux version 20 was released.

#GEANY DOCUMENTATION WINDOWS#

Note that I am a veteran user of UltraEdit (since 1998), and it works fine on Windows (except for occasional problems with column mode). UltraEdit for Linux also lacks behind the Windows version (as of early 2020 at version 18, 2018). Column mode has always been buggy in UltraEdit, but in the Linux version it is extreme.Īlso, it doesn’t like emojis at all (coming from, say, copy-pasting from a Twitter profile) and will simply delete all text (or corrupt text, crash, or freeze) if an emoji character is deleted… (there is no way in UltraEdit for Linux to remove emoji characters without also losing content). The corruption happens with using column mode, possibly worsened by using split windows (I mostly use vertically split). UltraEdit for Linux is extremely buggy and corrupts the text documents.