1 Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE
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7 Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment.
8 It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a
9 few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent
10 as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME. So it
11 is using only the GTK+ toolkit and therefore you need only the
12 GTK+ runtime libraries to run Geany.
17 The basic features of Geany are:
21 - auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
22 - auto completion of XML and HTML tags
25 - many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
27 - embedded terminal emulation
32 For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or
33 GTK3 libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries
34 and header files, such as Pango, Glib and ATK. All these files are
35 available at http://www.gtk.org.
37 Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler and the Make tool; a C++
38 compiler is also needed for the required Scintilla library included. The
39 GNU versions of these tools are recommended.
45 To build the user manual you need *rst2html* from Docutils. A pre-built
46 version of the manual is available in distribution tarballs and will be used as
47 fallback if *rst2html* is missing. When building from Git however, that
48 pre-built version is not included and *rst2html* is required by default.
49 You can explicitly disable building the user manual using the
50 ``--disable-html-docs`` *configure* flag, but this will result in not
51 installing a local version of the user manual, and Geany will then try
52 and open the online version instead when requested.
54 Installing from a Git clone
55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
57 Install Autotools (*automake*, *autoconf* and *libtool*), *intltool*,
58 and the GLib development files **before** running any of the following
59 commands, as well as *rst2html* from Docutils (see above for details).
60 Then, run ``./autogen.sh`` and then follow the instructions for
61 `installing from a release tarball`_.
63 Installing from a release tarball
64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
66 Run the the following three commands::
70 (as root, or using sudo)
73 For more configuration details run ``./configure --help``
75 If there are any errors during compilation, check your build environment
76 and try to find the error, otherwise contact the mailing list or one of
79 See the manual for details (geany.txt/geany.html).
84 To run Geany just type::
88 on a console or use the applications menu from your desktop environment.
89 There a few command line options. See the manual page of Geany or run::
93 for details. Or look into the documentation in the *doc/* directory.
94 The most important option probably is ``-c`` or ``--config``, where you can
95 specify an alternate configuration directory.
100 Geany runs also under Windows. To download the binary with all necessary
101 files, visit Geany's homepage. But you should know, that the Windows
102 version is not yet well tested and there are some features missing:
104 - build support (implemented but might be still buggy)
105 - embedded terminal emulation (VTE)
106 - Windows 9x users: in order to run Geany on Windows 95, 98 or ME you
107 need to install the file *SHFolder.dll* either in the Geany installation
108 directory or in your Windows directory. For more information please
109 visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241733.
114 Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
115 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
116 License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license
117 can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this
119 The included Scintilla library (found in the subdirectory scintilla/)
120 has its own license, which can be found in the file scintilla/License.txt
121 included with the source code of this program.
124 Ideas, questions, patches and bug reports
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126 See http://www.geany.org/
127 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in ``diff -u``
128 format) to the mailing list or one of the authors. Also see the HACKING
133 2005-2015 by Enrico Tröger, Nick Treleaven, Colomban Wendling, Matthew Brush and Frank Lanitz
134 enrico(dot)troeger(at)uvena(dot)de
135 nick(dot)treleaven(at)btinternet(dot)com
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137 mbrush(at)codebrainz(dot)ca
138 frank(at)frank(dot)uvena(dot)de