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Geany - The Flyweight IDE
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor
that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your
workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into
over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming
languages.
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Geany-Plugins 2.1 are out
- July 2025
Geany 2.1 is out!
- July 2025
Wanted: New maintainer for Windows builds of Geany
- January 2025
Geany 2.0 is out!
- October 2023
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Fast & Small
One of the primary reasons for Geany's existence is that there
is a need for a decent, GUI, lightweight, cross-platform, flexible
and powerful IDE/editor. Many editors meet one or more of these
requirements but fall short on others.
Geany attempts to hit the sweet spot.
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Great Community
Geany is Good Ol' Fashioned
Free Software
Using the
GPL v2 license
Geany assures that not only can you customize and hack it, but
that everyone benefits from changes the community makes. Geany
has a vibrant community of professionals and hobbyists alike
that contribute improvements and fixes across numerous
platforms including
The Mailing Lists
Github
Matrix
#geany:matrix.org
and
Mastodon
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Easily Customizable
Many parts of Geany are heavily customizable like color themes
Geany Themes
) or
adding new filetypes.
Furthermore, Geany provides many settings to let you adjust it
to your needs and preferences.
Many Filetypes
Many supported filetypes including popular programming languages like
C, Java, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Python or Perl.
But Geany also includes support
for other useful filetypes like ini-style config files,
Diff output, SQL files and many more
get the full list
Many Plugins
With Geany's plugin system, users can get more features into Geany and
developers can easily add new features and/or improve existing ones.
VCS Plugin (Git, SVN, ...)
SpellCheck
Project Organizer
Translation Helper
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