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:
20 - auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
21 - auto completion of XML and HTML tags
24 - many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
26 - embedded terminal emulation
31 For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or
32 GTK3 libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries
33 and header files, such as Pango, Glib and ATK. All these files are
34 available at http://www.gtk.org.
36 Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler and the Make tool; a C++
37 compiler is also needed for the required Scintilla library included. The
38 GNU versions of these tools are recommended.
43 Installing Geany is done by the following three commands:
49 If you are building from a Git clone rather than a source tarball, you need
50 to run ./autogen.sh first.
52 For more configuration details run
55 If there are any errors during compilation, check your build environment
56 and try to find the error, otherwise contact the mailing list or one of
59 See the manual for details (geany.txt/geany.html).
64 To run Geany just type
66 on a console or use the applications menu from your desktop environment.
67 There a few command line options. See the manual page of Geany or run
69 for details. Or look into the documentation in the doc/ directory.
70 The most important option probably is -c or --config, where you can
71 specify an alternate configuration directory.
76 Geany runs also under Windows. To download the binary with all necessary
77 files, visit Geany's homepage. But you should know, that the Windows
78 version is not yet well tested and there are some features missing:
79 - build support (implemented but might be still buggy)
80 - embedded terminal emulation (VTE)
81 - Windows 9x users: in order to run Geany on Windows 95, 98 or ME you
82 need to install the file SHFolder.dll either in the Geany installation
83 directory or in your Windows directory. For more information please
84 visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241733.
89 Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
90 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
91 License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license
92 can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this
94 The included Scintilla library (found in the subdirectory scintilla/)
95 has its own license, which can be found in the file scintilla/License.txt
96 included with the source code of this program.
99 Ideas, questions, patches and bug reports
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101 See http://www.geany.org/
102 If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u'
103 format) to the mailing list or one of the authors. Also see the HACKING
108 2005-2015 by Enrico Tröger, Nick Treleaven, Colomban Wendling, Matthew Brush and Frank Lanitz
109 enrico(dot)troeger(at)uvena(dot)de
110 nick(dot)treleaven(at)btinternet(dot)com
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113 frank(at)frank(dot)uvena(dot)de