Geany - My favorite text editor!
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Geany has been around since 2005. Let's say it together ... UNDERRATED!
Software:
Distro: Debian 12 trixie (testing)
Geany
www.geany.org/
My installation:
sudo apt install geany geany-plugin-addons geany-plugin-git-changebar geany-plugin-overview geany-plugin-spellcheck geany-plugin-treebrowser geany-plugin-vimode geany-plugin-markdown
Mentioned but not installed:
plugins.geany.org/geanylua/ - geany-plugin-lua
=== Contents of this Video ===
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Getting started with Geany and plugins
1:36 - Geany fonts and themes
4:25 - Getting a cleaner interface
6:08 - Geany preferences
8:33 - Geany Plugin Manager
9:17 - geany-plugin-addons
10:57 - geany-plugin-treebrowser
11:57 - geany-plugin-overview
12:45 - Tabs and Split Window
13:42 - geany-plugin-git-changebar
14:37 - geany-plugin-markdown
15:44 - geany-plugin-vimode
18:39 - 1st Outtro
19:12 - Setting up for Python and close
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github.com/drewgrif/
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Love Geany! It’s my preferred text editor for everything.
Great video Drew, as always!
Nice video, here also a Geany user for several years now. I go with very similar settings to you, one that I would suggest is Preferences -> Editor -> Features -> Disable Drag and Drop, which is something I find useless and problematic. I did not know the Git plugin, now using it!
Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, Geany is dope. Underrated for sure. I use MX Linux on my work PC and Laptop so I see it all the time but outside of there I never see it mentioned.
Useful video . Like always. Thanks. I ve learned a lot with this
Glad to hear it!
Working as a developer for more than 10 years now I'm sticking with geany for at least the last 5 years (or even more) now. For me geany is just perfect. Don't agree on some of your critism though. I.e.: I try to treat the long line marker as a "brick wall". What I really love is 1.) how easy it is to setup your own toolchain / commands etc. - not having to rely on some "build in" sh*t like with many other IDEs and 2.) how easy it is to write your own colorscheme. I really hate that many editors and IDEs went "full rainbow colored" with their syntax highlighting. So I wrote a simple black & white theme with very subtile color nuances for myself. Imho good code should be readable just black on white like if it was printed in a book.
Do you have a git file of the color scheme?
Does Geany collects any user's data ?
Pro-tip: If you accidentally close a browser tab you can bring it back with Ctrl-Shift-T.
good info.
I'm Geany user for a very long time. I'm using it for C, PHP, JS, HTML and Java.
I like that when you hold control button and drag vertically you can select text vertically or edit multiple lines.
I love Geany but I haven't been able to use error correction in php. Have you been able to ecoconfigure that functionality?
@@creativapixelperu No. I use Glogg to view errors or just terminal if I run dev server.
Incrível... Não tinha idéia que o Geany fazia tudo isso!
Lua is an embedded scripting language used in a lot of programs and games. e.g. VLC, WoW, Minetest, Nmap, Adobe CC etc, etc. The Geany plug-in ads language support like syntax highlighting and stuff.
Thanks, Ive been looking for a text for a new text editor. My problem is most are either too heavy or too light. I forgot all about Geany. It looks like this could be just what I need.
This is a great video! I especially like the transparent look you got on hyprland(or bspwm?), I find geany to be a really good text editor and ide. although I find it slightly easier to use KATE from the KDE suite. It is preinstalled with any plasma enironment and it is based on qt, so whenever I use a compositor I also can make Kate transparent with the help of kvantum. Kate has the same features as Geany. I would say Kate and Geany are twin brothers. Equally cool
very insightful. we are looking forward for 2nd part of RSS Reader, hope that interest you. thanks
I was also a Geany user for years. And I use it until now. But I have to change to VSCode because of LSP and Intelephense for PHP code linter. 😢 I tried several times to make intelephense work on Geany, but I don't understand the process.
Exactly, the same thing happens to me. I think that if it had that functionality with PHP and javascript it would take a big leap. I don't want to leave geany :(
Geany was my primary editor I would work in every day from 2008 to about 2015 when I switched to VS code for the more powerful tools.
I still have geany around for if I need to open and edit a single file quickly.
Nice!
VIM, I haven't been using it long, but I don't find it hard. Whenever I dig into a new tiling WM, I learn more. Maybe that's why it's fun...
Great video, thanks. May I ask a favor? Could you do a video about configuration and use cases of Geany Plugins, specially Geany Tags and GeanyDoc; GeanyDoc looks like a very useful plugin to get documentation of functions but I couldn't find any useful information for configuration. Thanks in advance
I'm on debian testing but I can't install geany . "apt install geany " say this package is not available
They removed it from testing for the time being.
I use this editor a lot, it's very light and rakeable, but I just can't get the coloring to look good in the Shell script.
How did you make your geany background transparent?
In this situation, I set the opacity in the hyprland configuration to 0.85.
How to use it for web development?
Personally not my cup of tea, I prefer a terminal centric workflow and have spent a some time making neovim and kitty look and work the way I want, but this looks really cozy for people that prefer GUI editors.
I am quite interested in this tiling window manager setup, looks like hyprland, I wanted to try it on Ubuntu, but haven’t found a reliable way to set it up yet.
I just got a new laptop that pretty modern (i7 14th Gen, 32GB RAM, N-Vidia graphics card) to replace my current laptop (Intel i5-1035G1 (8) @ 3.600GHz 12GB RAM) but I still want to keep this laptop around as a back up or if I want to dev and can't/don't want to bring my new laptop. I'm going to install lubuntu on it and install geany with your settings here because this will be a good replacement for VSCode in a pinch when I don't want a memory hog slowing down my machine.
Im using it to develope my C program on my Thinkpad T60 running my custom debian image. Works great. Using the gdb plugin.
Hi!! I've got Geany installed using Python, but recently I installed vintbas ('the Vintage BASIC Interpreter') in order to refresh some old BASIC coding stuff from my teenage days🤣. Does anybody how to link Geany with the BASIC interpreter?
Awsome
Indeed. Geany = awesome!
nice video
I always liked geany, although since I use KDE Kate is more than enough and since I don't spend too much time on linux for coding/scripting never was my primary, but it is indeed a very underrated editor
Thanks for sharing!
Does Geany collects any user's data ?
Nope
@@JustAGuyLinux
Thankyou for your response
No one these days seems to be able to not be reliant on git....oh hum
had to use geany on my raspi and absolutely hated it. it was so slow, the textediting lagged and didnt behave as it should, code suggestions didnt work or only got in the way. i actually rather used nano than this p.o.s
You probably already know about l3afpad, but it is in the debian packages. Very light. Hasn't been touched since 2015. Assuming you want an editor outside of command line.
I want to try Geany but wonder if you could help me with something. I use ZSH and would like to, when I press F5, that Geany opens zsh to execute my python code. I have tried a few times to set this but there is very little information on how to get it working.
This: zsh -e "/usr/bin/zsh %c"
is not working. Any ideas? Thanks! :)
Couple things and not sure zsh has anything to do with it.
First thing, I generally don't use the geany built-in terminal.
So in the Preferences => Tools
Under Terminal: tilix -e "/bin/sh %c"
Second, assuming you have python installed and are working on a py file.
Change the Build=> Set Build Commands
Execute: python3 "%f" (changed from python "%f")
@@JustAGuyLinux Thank you. I got it all working. My confusion arose from trying to set this in Terminal instead of, as you mentioned, Tools. It is working now. Thank you again for this great tutorial. Love the speeeed of Geany! :)