Geany

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.

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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 geany only requires the gtk2 runtime libraries.

some basic features of geany:

* syntax highlighting * code folding * symbol name autocompletion * construct completion/snippets * autoclosing of xml and html tags * call tips * many supported filetypes including c, java, php, html, python, perl, pascal # symbol lists# code navigation# build system to compile and execute your code# simple project management# plugin interface

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Customizable Minimalistic Portable Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Support for Large File Code navigation

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Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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