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Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.

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What ~/.config refers to and how to put files there?

I want to set up a plugin for the Geany editor on a Debian system. It's a theme changing plugin, so I am following this manual. It says: The simplest way to do this is to copy the contents of the archive into the ~/.config/geany/filedefs/…
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How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?

How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?
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Geany: Open a new instance per workspace when opening a file in that workspace

I'm using Mate 1.2.0 in Linux Mint 13. The two text editors i use are Gedit and Geany (v0.25): i use Geany for all my coding as i prefer the syntax highlighting and some other interface features. One thing that bugs me though is this…
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Why did adding the Debian testing repository create so many package dependencies?

I have Debian 6.0.4, and I'm running an outdated Geany text editor package. There's no newer version available in the current stable repository, so I added testing packages to sources.list: #debian testing deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing…
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Geany text editor - caret or cursor

How can I set the caret style in Geany editor to look bold, something similar to the terminal caret style or to enhance its observability. Any tweaks available. Thanks for any suggestion as the default look is difficult to point out quickly due to…
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Customising markdown syntax highlighting in Geany

I'm using Geany 1.23.1 on Lubuntu 13.10. I've copied over filetypes.markdown from /usr/share/geany to ~/.config/geany/filedefs. filetypes.markdown has the following content: # For complete documentation of this file, please see Geany's main…
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How to set the color of the cursor in Geany?

I'm using Geany on Windows and would like to set the cursor colour to something more conspicuous.  In my AppData\Roaming\geany\filedefs\filetypes.common, I have set caret=caret;;true cursor_color=yellow While the caret-setting (changing the default…
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How to build third-party Geany plugins?

After downloading and extracting Geany's JSON Prettifier, and installing yajl, the make command does raise this error: /bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: not found ./geany_json_prettifier.c:32:25: fatal error: geanyplugin.h: No such file or…
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Is it possible to open file in specific encoding in geany?

My system locale is ru_RU.KOI8-R and I want geany to create all new files in this encoding. In its settings I set "Default encoding (new files)" to "Cyrillic (KOI8-R)" and it works for new files. But when I open any file without cyrillic characters,…
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Execute custom command in Geany

I want to execute some command with currently edited file as argument from within Geany, triggered by keyboard shortcut. For example: I am editing /home/user/file.txt and after hitting "Ctrl+B" I want geany to execute $ command…
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Geany: Ruby comments in erb.html break the syntax highlighting

I use Geany (v1.123.1), my favourite text editor for code editing, as it's nice and simple. One thing which it doesn't do right is the syntax highlighting of comments, in erb files (a type of ruby template for web pages). In erb files, ruby code is…
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How to Ignore .aux files in Geany's Find in Files?

I would like to have some sort of ignorelist where I can add files which I do not want to search. You find `Find in Files* by second clicking Left-column in Documents view/tab. My output for steeldriver's aswers --exclude='*.aux' --exclude='*.bib'…
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how to create more than three geany custom commands with shortcuts

Geany allows creating custom commands and first three of them are available for invocation by pressing ctrl+1/2/3 respectively. How to make the fourth and subsequent ones available for shortcuts as well?
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Geany text editor caret block

I have Geany installed via apt-get on debian 8. I want to set the caret shape to be a block, but i can't find any filetypes.common in my .config/geany/filedefs. How can i do this?
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How to avoid that Geany editor changes owner of file when it's edited?

I use Geany to edit files in a web app that resides in /var/www. The owner and group of /var/www and all sub directories and files are www-data:www-data. My user account is a member of that group and I edit the files as my user. Sometimes it seems…
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