NAME¶
Geany — a small and lightweight IDE
SYNOPSIS¶
geany [
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 folding,
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 number).
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
configuration 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
snippets 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
directory 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-support 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 libvte.so. This
option is only needed, when the autodetection doesn't work. Only available
if Geany was compiled with support 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.