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Geany — a small and lightweight IDE
SYNOPSISgeany [option] [+number] [files ...]
DESCRIPTION
Geany is a small and fast editor with basic features of an integrated
development environment.
Some of its features: syntax highlighting, code completion, code fold‐
ing, symbol/tag lists and many supported filetypes like C(++), Java,
PHP, HTML, DocBook, Perl and more.
Homepage: http://www.geany.org/
OPTIONS
files ...
A space-separated list of filenames. Absolute and relative
filenames can be used. Geany also recognises line and column
information when appended to the filename with colons, e.g.
"geany foo.bar:10:5" will open the file foo.bar and place the
cursor in line 10 at column 5.
Projects can also be opened but a project file (*.geany) must
be the first non-option argument. All additionally given
files are ignored.
+number
Set initial line number for the first opened file (same as
--line, do not put a space between the + sign and the num‐
ber). E.g. "geany +7 foo.bar" will open the file foo.bar and
place the cursor in line 7.
--column
Set initial column number for the first opened file (useful
in conjunction with --line).
-c, --config
Use an alternate configuration directory. Default configura‐
tion directory is ~/.config/geany/ and there resides
geany.conf and some template files.
--ft-names
Print a list of Geany's internal filetype names (useful snip‐
pets configuration).
-g, --generate-tags
Generate a global tags file (see documentation).
-P, --no-preprocessing
Don't preprocess C/C++ files when generating tags.
-i, --new-instance
Don't open files in a running instance, force opening a new
instance. Only available if Geany was compiled with support
for Sockets.
-l, --line
Set initial line number for the first opened file.
--list-documents
Return a list of open documents in a running Geany instance.
This can be used to read the currently opened documents in
Geany from an external script or tool. The returned list is
separated by newlines (LF) and consists of the full, UTF-8
encoded filenames of the documents. Only available if Geany
was compiled with support for Sockets.
-m, --no-msgwin
Don't show the message window. Use this option if you don't
need compiler messages or VTE support.
-n, --no-ctags
Don't load symbol completion and call tip data. Use this
option, if you don't want to use them. For more information
please see documentation.
-p, --no-plugins
Don't load plugin support.
--print-prefix
Print installation prefix, the data directory, the lib direc‐
tory and the locale directory (in this order) to stdout, each
per line. This is mainly intended for plugin authors to
detect installation paths.
-r, --read-only
Open all files given on the command line in read-only mode.
This only applies to files opened explicitly from the command
line, so files from previous sessions or project files are
unaffected.
-s, --no-session
Don't load the previous session's files.
-t, --no-terminal
Don't load terminal support. Use this option, if you don't
want to load the virtual terminal emulator widget at startup.
If you don't have libvte.so.4 installed, then terminal-sup‐
port is automatically disabled. Only available if Geany was
compiled with support for VTE.
--socket-file
Use this socket filename for communication with a running
Geany instance
--vte-lib
Specify explicitly the path including filename or only the
filename to the VTE library, e.g. /usr/lib/libvte.so or lib‐
vte.so. This option is only needed, when the autodetection
doesn't work. Only available if Geany was compiled with sup‐
port for VTE.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose (print useful status messages).
-V, --version
Show version information and exit.
-?, --help
Show help information and exit.
Geany supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help
screen.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by the Geany developer team. Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/geany/GPL-2.
geany 1.24.1 April 16, 2014 GEANY(1)
