Geany

About Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK3 runtime libraries.

Features

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Code folding
  • Symbol name auto-completion
  • Construct completion/snippets
  • Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
  • Call tips
  • Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list)
  • Symbol lists
  • Code navigation
  • Build system to compile and execute your code
  • Simple project management
  • Plugin interface (see Plugins)

Geany is known to run under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, AIX v5.3, Solaris Express and Windows. More generally, it should run on every platform, which is supported by the GTK libraries. Only the Windows port of Geany is missing some features.

The code is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Geany's makers

  • Colomban Wendling (maintainer, developer)
  • Nick Treleaven (developer)
  • Matthew Brush (developer)
  • Enrico Tröger (developer)
  • Frank Lanitz (translation maintainer)
  • Lex Trotman (regular contributor, support guru)
  • Jiří Techet (regular contributor, macOS expert)
  • and many other contributors, translators and patch writers

Contact

To contact us for general questions or feedback, either use one of our mailing lists, the Matrix channel #geany:matrix.org or the Github issue tracker.