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About Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.

Some basic features of Geany:

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Code folding
  • Symbol name auto-completion
  • Construct completion/snippets
  • Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
  • Call tips
  • Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list)
  • Symbol lists
  • Code navigation
  • Build system to compile and execute your code
  • Simple project management
  • Plugin interface (see Plugins)

Geany is known to run under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX v5.3, Solaris Express and Windows. More generally, it should run on every platform, which is supported by the GTK libraries. Only the Windows port of Geany is missing some features.

The code is licenced under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Reviews

A more descriptive and great introduction into Geany can be found on http://www.ubuntunews.info/geany-perfect-programming-ide (thanks to Mateusz Mucha).

Jeff Sabarese wrote an article about Geany on Windows. Have a look at http://novicenotes.com/2008/01/20/best-free-windows-php-ide-text-editor/.

Daniel Voicu wrote a review of Geany 0.14 at Softpedia. It can be found at http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Geany--Review-84142.shtml

100% CLEAN award granted by Softpedia

Geany 0.11 got the Softpedia 100% Clean Award.