Tiago Sousa and Om Maciel recently blogged about many of Geany’s great features. Geany is a cool, lightweight text editor especially configured to edit program files. I have been using Gedit as my IDE for learning python but now I’ve switched. Geany handles quite a number of file types.
Geany has a three pane layout with document tree and symbols on the left the main editor on the right and across the bottom is a panel that contains a terminal, messages, a notes area called “Scribble” and a compiler window. This sounds cluttered but its UI is elegant and is clean and intuitive. I’ll soon be trying Geany out editing some Docbook file for the Ubuntu Documentation Team.
One word… ‘vim’.
I love VIM too. But…
Hey Will,
I heard your voicemail on Linux Reality today. Nice tip and nice to put a voice to the writing so to speak.
I’m a fan of Gvim, but for some things it’s still remains kludgy. Namely cut and paste operations. I’m a fairly good typist, but Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V beats “+y, “+x and “+gP any day of the week for me.
I’ll have to check out Geany for some rudimentary python stuff I sometimes do. Sad to say, but I have yet to find an editor as clean and simple as ActiveState’s PythonWin – which I believe is windows only. It’s not a great editor, but I like it’s simplicity and it’s code folding. I know vim does folding too, but it’s not as intuitive to me (but like most other things vim it would come with practice). Most other ide-style editors I’ve tried are either too heavy on the features, or too buggy. Your description of Geany being lightweight makes me curious.
If “+gP is too complicated for you why you just don’t use shift-insert? It works.
Gvim is my favorite editor. I am not able develop on non modal editors.
If “+gP is too complicated for you use shift-insert? It works.
Gvim is my favorite editor. I am not able develop on non modal editors.