Congrats for the 2.0 release!<p>I always found Geany a real gem among the regular crop of IDEs. (and I did spend quite some time exploring the synaptic app store back in the day)<p>The level of focus and simplicity is hardly seen among its peers.
I've changed the URL from <a href="https://www.geany.org/news/geany-20-is-out/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.geany.org/news/geany-20-is-out/</a>, which doesn't explain what the software is.<p>Previous threads:<p><i>Geany most common keyword auto completion</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29257010">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29257010</a> - Nov 2021 (1 comment)<p><i>Geany – A flyweight IDE</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23524336">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23524336</a> - June 2020 (113 comments)<p><i>Geany – Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16557128">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16557128</a> - March 2018 (92 comments)
There's a news / blog post about the release that would be nice to link to, but it appears to only be available as a JavaScript pop-up if you click on the news section. Someone did a lot of work to make the page worse.
Used Geany during most of my bachelors (and at least one internship) until I fell down the vim rabbit hole. Still have a soft spot for it even if I have not used it "in anger" in years.
Oh fun! I love Geany and use it as much as I can. I adore its speed, low resource-usage and simplicity.<p>I hope the plug-in API hasn't changed too much, I have a tiny git plugin [1] I wrote that I hope still builds! Plug: if you think jumping to a known file quickly in a large repo sounds useful, maybe give it a try.<p>Edit: typo fixo.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/unwind/gitbrowser">https://github.com/unwind/gitbrowser</a>
No support for pls (language servers)?<p>I used to use geany a decade ago on my personal linux laptop. I use kate now for a notepad app, but Sublime for a programming editor, which is ok for its pls support. I'm going to buy a license for it on Monday.
In the Gnome IDE dept., mentions to two other options which are ported to gtk4 that brings GPU acceleration<p>- <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder</a><p>- <a href="https://github.com/Lyude/neovim-gtk">https://github.com/Lyude/neovim-gtk</a>
I admire them for not going shitty electron app path. I don't think it's suitable for serious programming. But it has it's uses like working on a folder with a lot of config files, scripts, etc. Making some casual changes on large projects are perfectly fine too. Nonetheless, I love Geany. Kudos to the Geany team!
I love geany for loose file edits, but I don't use as an IDE. For one thing (perhaps this has changed in the 2.0?) no "proper" split window support; there was a patch implementing it a few years back, but it was refused on religious reasons (read, "not done the way we want it so we're going to do it ourselves instead and in fact never came around to it").<p>Still, great editor, super fast, and the fact you can easily open a file in your currently open session (and that it supports the <filename>:<line number> convention) makes it super for checking out error message/warnings etc when compiling code that you don't have in an IDE...
Geany is a snappy, simple FLOSS editor with just the right amount of flashier optional features. I use it for almost everything, with micro being a great compliment in terminal situations.<p>One often forgotten feature is snippets, where you can make custom macros for whatever language you're using.<p>Glad to see 2.0, it has a fix to something that was bugging me, having my conf files in git was problematic because session info was stored in the same file as general config.
Does it handle large files like sublime? Most editors go belly up if you open a huge file.<p>And due to my limited understanding of IT, I have at times opened large SQL database to apply changes by hand :-(
'Split "session data" into session.conf' is a nice change, I have wanted that for a long time. It would be nice if notepad++ did the same.
Oh! Nim support!<p>But alas it is just syntax highlighting. Granted it does work pretty well and editor feels snappy, but no compile errors or completions. One can hope..
Speaking up to mention:: I do not think open source software gets enough financial support. Geany is a great editor. Consider donating to the organization if you can. <a href="https://geany.org/about/donate/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://geany.org/about/donate/</a>
I really tried to use geany but found everything really difficult to do. On windows notepad++ is way easier. I decided to invest some time in vim on Linux.