A fast and lightweight IDE

Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE

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About

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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. So it is using only the GTK+ toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK+ runtime libraries to run Geany.

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.. image:: doc/images/main_window.png :width: 750 :alt: Screenshot of Geany showing the main user interface :target: doc/images/main_window.png

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Features

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The basic features of Geany are:

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syntax highlighting
code completion
auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
auto completion of XML and HTML tags
call tips
folding
many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
symbol lists
embedded terminal emulation
extensibility through plugins

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Installation from distribution packages

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Using distribution packages on Linux, BSD and similar distributions is the easiest and recommended way. This way you will also benefit from automatic Geany updates by the package manager of the distribution.

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Packages are available for most distributions including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and many more.

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Installation on Mac OS and Windows

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Prebuilt binary packages for Mac OS and Windows can be found on