How can I get Geany to autocomplete an object's constraints? For example, I type: self.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_ And I want the list of possible constraints to show up such as WIN_POS_NONE an...

I have a text file with each paragraph on its own line. Some of the paragraphs got split at the start of a word. For example: Books are an effective way to communicate across time, both from the p...

My default Geany installation on Debian does not recognize some file types out of the box. How can I add extensions, using the same syntax highlighting as other known extensions for simplicity's sa...

I am trying to create custom syntax highlighting for Kivy '.kv' files in the Geany editor. Although the specific filetype seems irrelavant to the issue I'm having, as any efforts I make at getting ...

I want to modify the beginning of every line of a txt file in Geany. Somehow it is possible to write in multiple lines at the same time (maybe with box selection?). How to do this?

I am just starting to set up virtual environments for my Python projects. Up to now I have used and like Geany for development and testing. When I set up my new virtual environment, what will I nee...

Geany is the closest thing I can find to the perfect web development IDE. However, I can't find a way to automatically close curly brackets ({). For example, typing: function test() { ..and pre...

If a file open in geany is modified by another program, and geany is then brought to the front, then geany displays a modal dialog as follows. The file 'stuff.txt' on the disk is more recent than ...

I've been trying to modify the default Python compiler/run command in Geany. Some searching indicated that I would need to modify `/usr/share/geany/filetypes.python's last two lines as follows #c...

How can I stay tab free in Geany on Ubuntu? When I am coding in Python, tabs have always annoyed me. And the TAB is invisible. So strange. When I open my code by gedit, those TABs are visible.

Is there a way to highlight a section of code to be commented out in one swoop using geany text editor?

Under the Build menu, I can see 'Execute' option, but it is greyed out. The only option available is 'Set Includes and Arguments'. When I click that both fields are already filled out. What do I h...

I am a big fan of Geany text editor. I am using it to write Python, C and as a simple text editor. My question is following: Suppose I have opened a file example.txt and it contains: https://www...

I am using Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), and Geany for coding. The code I am writing in C worked completely fine until I used the sqrtf command to find the square root of a float. ...

There are many topics floating around covering codesign issues with macOS, from 10.5 onward. What I wanted to achieve is, to get Geany working with the GNU Debugger (gdb). Debugger is found in gean...

I often need to select a block of text, like a leading character that occurs on many lines. LibreOffice has block selection. How can I do this in Geany? For example, I want to remove the pipe and ...

I have an existing C++ project which is built with Gnu Make. I want to develop the source under Geany but am unable find a way to import it.

This is a simple ergonomics question. There's an option in the editor Geany than enables the user to scroll past the last line displayed. This allows the user to, for example, bring the last line o...

About the auto-complete features of Geany: does it have auto-complete? for which languages does it have auto-complete (plugins?)? how do I use auto-complete?

Whenever a program finishes to run when executing it with geany, the terminal doesn't close. geany terminal waits for a keystroke to close. How do I change this behavior and make it close automatic...

I'm not a great coder, in fact I'm just trying to learn, but I can't get Geany to regonise Python in my system (Windows 7) when I try to execute the program. When I click Execute, it opens a comman...

I set in geany a key shortcut to Send Selection to Terminal action which send the current line (or selection) to the build-in terminal (according to: shortcut to send selection to terminal in geany...

Geany is a simple, fast and yet powerful text editor. It has quite strong support for syntax highlighting for almost all kinds of programming languages. I was wondering how to make a customized sy...

I'm trying to align text vertically with a delimiter in Geany text editor: idxMathExpress (MathArcCos _) = 120 idxMathExpress (MathArcSin _) = 130 idxMathExpress (MathArcTan _) = 140 I would lik...

By default the current line is always highlighted in the Geany text editor. How can we disable this feature?