Some time back we covered customizing gedit. Although it’s a very good editor, it requires a bit of customizing. However, if you are a developer you might be found wanting looking for a good programming editor. Let’s see one of the basic yet powerful editor called as Geany. With almost no dependencies, it’s an editor that has some good features.

Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.

Features of Geany

• Syntax highlighting
• Code folding
• Symbol name auto-completion
• Construct completion/snippets
• Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
• Call tips
• Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list)
• Symbol lists
• Code navigation
• Build system to compile and execute your code
• Simple project management
• Plugin interface

Install Geany

Installing Geany on your Ubuntu machine as simple as it can get.

1. Download Geany deb file from getdeb download page (In the links section at the end of the post).

2. Double click the downloaded file (geany_0.18-1~getdeb1_i386.deb) to install it.

3. Start Geany be going to Applications > Programming > Geany

Geany Extras

Geany can be configured easily by adding extras and plugins. Extras are user contributed. They extend the functionality of Geany and also have some themes to change the look and feel of how geany looks.

Installing geany extras is very easy. You’ll have to modify your local config file. Extras and instructions of install them in Geany can be found at the Geany Extras page (Links Section).

Links

Download Geany

http://www.getdeb.net/app/Geany

Geany Extras page

http://www.geany.org/Download/Extras