All,
Just a quick thanks for Geany. I tried Code::Blocks and it took me four
tries to even get a project started correctly. After I did figure out
how to jump through all the hoops, I found it clunky and hard to use
anyway. No doubt it would have some usefulness in huge projects, but for
Gentlemen:
In zsh there are constructions like this:
(#b)
... that aren't comments. Can it be fixed? FWIW, the hash must be the
next character after the ' ( ' and must be within ' () ' but there can
be more than one character following the hash: " (#cN,M) ".
On 12/13/2015 04:02 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
"where to start" is a bit vague, but reading the source code is a pretty
good starting point[0]:
http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/ci/default/tree/lexers/LexBash.cxx
And of course the documentation, which among other useful details,
On 12/28/2015 02:10 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
The background colour is forced to white to avoid using up all your
ink/toner if you have a dark theme, but the foreground (eg text)
colours are not changed since you might *want* the ones chosen. Of
course that may get you white text on a white
I've never been able to print from Geany, anyone have any ideas why?
I'm so used to opening docs in other apps for printing that I don't even
think about it much anymore but I should give it some attention.
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On 11/27/2015 03:45 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
The syntax highlighting in Geany is provided by the Scintilla editing
widget we use, which is a separate project at www.scintilla.org.
You could ask there, although it explicitly states it only supports BASH.
Thanks, I'll take it up with them.
All,
Finally got around to playing with my color config. Is there a document
that lists all possible options? The manual lists a few but only for
the sake of example. Also, I had no luck with 'caret_width' tho the
example given is
caret=1;0;false;false
so I'm not sure if that is an error
On 11/21/2015 02:58 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
Thanks Colomban:
Hi,
[named_styles] section in filetypes.common should cover it I think.
Much better, tho there a still several undescribed.
indeed the documentation is wrong here, should be caret_width. Works
for me with i.e. caret_width=3
All:
I can enter UTF-8 characters using the ever so easy to remember
"CTRL+SHIFT+u ... four digits ... ENTER" method, but it won't save:
"An error occurred while converting the file from UTF-8 in "ISO-8859-1".
The file remains unsaved."
Is there a solution? Actually I don't even need UTF,
Changing the global default does not change the encoding for files
already open, thats why you had to change it for the file as well.
Cheers
Lex
But the global default has never been touched by me. When I checked it
was utf-8 and I've never even looked at that setting before let alone
On 2021-01-15 1:16 p.m., Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2021-01-15 8:14 a.m., Ray Andrews wrote:
All:
I can enter UTF-8 characters using the ever so easy to remember
"CTRL+SHIFT+u ... four digits ... ENTER" method, but it won't save:
"An error occurred while converting the file from
On 2021-01-16 1:45 p.m., Colomban Wendling wrote:
All this said, I fully support Matthew's take on this: as of 2021,
non-Unicode encodings should be left to backward compatibility
requirements with historic software. And UTF-8 is by far my favorite
one, if for any reason because it provides
Why is it that normal use of the left button to highlight and then the
center button to paste works between windows but not within a window?
You can paste into Geany, out of Geany, between different Geany windows,
but not within a given window.
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On 2021-02-05 9:21 a.m., Colomban Wendling wrote:
Le 05/02/2021 à 16:32, Ray Andrews a écrit :
Why is it that normal use of the left button to highlight and then the
center button to paste works between windows but not within a window?
You can paste into Geany, out of Geany, between different
On 2021-02-05 2:08 p.m., ToddAndMargo via Users wrote:
Hi All,
Fedora 33
geany-1.37.1-1.fc33.x86_64
I know I have posted on this before, but is there any movement on the
ability to actually "see" underscores?
I edited my own font for coding, one of the things it does is make the
bleeding
On 2021-02-06 5:09 p.m., Lex Trotman wrote:
But as I said, exactly what the outcome is depends critically on the
relationship between font measurements in points (1/72 of an inch) and
screen measurements in pixels which vary in size depending on the
screen resolution (8k 4k 2k FHD) and size 32"
On 2021-02-06 3:00 p.m., Lex Trotman wrote:
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 01:09, angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it
wrote:
Hi,
I also had this problem (the underscore does not appear in the text).
After some research I realized that the fact is a consequence of the size of
the characters, and by
On 2021-08-14 4:32 a.m., Lex Trotman wrote:
In general it is better to not use Geany or any other complex IDE to
edit files as root,
In general it is better to not use Geany or any other complex IDE to
edit files as root
I wonder if the dangers are exaggerated. Coming from DOS, I was used
On 2021-09-09 4:28 a.m., Chris wrote:
Is there a way to change the PHP $ variable symbol to a different
colour. My eyesight isn't the best and also I'm dyslexic, so I tend to
struggle a bit with the likes of $STOP, $TOP, $$STEP Etc. I prefer to
use a lot of capitalized variable names as they
On 2021-09-12 5:08 a.m., rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, September 11, 2021 05:40:11 PM Chris wrote:
So I'd like to suggest to you (Chris) that you consider posting both a
screenshot
Just uploaded to the site Chris gave me.
agrees.
I don't know how much space font file(s) take up
On 2021-09-11 2:40 p.m., Chris wrote:
I'm new to this type of activity, I presume this sort of thing is a
forum by email, like "death by chocolate"... Although, I might be so
so wrong!!
Are you aloud to email your screen shot of your font to me?
I dunno if there's a way to send it via the
On 2021-09-09 5:37 p.m., Lex Trotman wrote:
Did you make your font available anywhere to help others?
I don't know where I'd post it. Explain some way of posting a screen
cap and I'll show you a sample. Meanwhile anyone who wants to contact
me privately is welcome to a copy. It's quite fun
On 2021-09-09 7:38 p.m., Lex Trotman wrote:
Maybe you could put it on github so others can contribute characters
that bother them?
Never used github so that would be a new thing learned.
Did you try the Hack font? https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
They've got basically the same idea. Mine is
I think I've whined about this before but I sure wish Geany had a plain
vanilla 'black on white' printing option. I use a theme with a pure
black background and needless to say I don't want that printed. It's a
nuisance having to fire up another editor just for printing. Speaking
of which,
On 2022-06-08 15:48, Lex Trotman wrote:
There is a spellcheck plugin in the plugins collection.
Cheers
Lex
Thanks Lex, where might that be found?
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On 2022-06-08 16:18, Lex Trotman wrote:
Since you havn't told me your OS and where you got Geany from all I
can say is probably at the same place as you got Geany.
Right, I see it in the repository. Lots of other stuff too!
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On 2022-09-28 12:38, ben...@gmx.com wrote:
On 9/28/22 13:53, Ray Andrews wrote:
How do I change the default 'open' path? I see nothing in the
Preferences menus. geany.conf has the promising 'default_open_path' but
setting it does nothing. Funny, the default open path that is now being
used
How do I change the default 'open' path? I see nothing in the
Preferences menus. geany.conf has the promising 'default_open_path' but
setting it does nothing. Funny, the default open path that is now being
used is an obscure directory that I hardly ever go to, but it won't change.
On 2022-09-26 16:09, Lex Trotman wrote:
Why not one, big menu with everything on it? Catagorized
of course, and even 'jump to section' buttons, but you can still see
everything on one page.
... or because certain ways of expecting a GUI to work have become
almost hardwired into us. That's
On 2022-09-27 09:51, Mike Miller wrote:
Believe the thinking from the old days is that scrolling is to be
avoided when it can be.
There may have been an age where that made sense, but I think it's long
gone.
I generally agree, so we might split the pane into notebook tabs when
they get
Is it possible to change the cursor? The single pixel wide white line
is easy to lose. Editing the Adwaita cursors is easy but I don't think
the Geany cursor is one of those.
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On 2022-10-26 10:13, Enrico Tröger wrote:
For example:
caret=0xff000;0;true;false
would give you a red block cursor.
Thanks Enrico, that's more than enough to keep me happy. Now if only I
could do the same in other apps.
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I've started getting files like this:
15076 [2022-10-19--07:46] .goutputstream-5KNKU1
16046 [2022-10-25--08:03] .goutputstream-35IVU1
23 [2022-10-28--20:18] .goutputstream-C2JDU1
... it only started recently. The post by 'thesquash' half way down
this URL:
On 2022-09-26 08:39, Little Girl wrote:
Hey there,
This should give it to you:
Edit --> Preferences --> Interface --> Miscellaneous --> Show status
bar
Perfect thanks. BTW, just to rant a little, not that there's any hope
of change, Windows has us all so corrupted that we don't even know
Sorry, it seems such a trivial question but here with Debian 11 and
Geany 1.37.1, I can't get the line on the bottom that, in my old setup
with Debian 9, just indicated the current line. I don't want the
'messages' window I don't think, it told me all sorts of things I'm not
interested in.
On 2022-09-26 10:29, Little Girl wrote:
Hey there,
Ray Andrews wrote:
BTW, just to rant a little, not that there's any hope of change,
Windows has us all so corrupted that we don't even know how much
we've been ruined, still I'll say it: Geany, like everyone else in
the GUI computer universe
On 2022-09-21 14:25, Lex Trotman wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 07:17, Ray Andrews wrote:
This is strange. I upgraded my Debian a few days ago and now Geany
(1.29) insists on moving the cursor 25 characters to the right whenever
1.29? are you sure? some "upgrade", thats 6 years
This is strange. I upgraded my Debian a few days ago and now Geany
(1.29) insists on moving the cursor 25 characters to the right whenever
I type a colon. There are none of the little dots indicating a space,
nor the arrow that indicates a tab. There's just a chasm 25 characters
wide. What
On 2022-09-21 13:47, Ray Andrews wrote:
This is strange. I upgraded my Debian a few days ago and now Geany
(1.29) insists on moving the cursor 25 characters to the right
whenever I type a colon. There are none of the little dots indicating
a space, nor the arrow that indicates a tab
On 2022-09-21 14:25, Lex Trotman wrote:
How on earth would we know, nobody else has reported it :-)
Hold the press, this is something to do with the font! I change fonts
and it's all fine. God knows. Anyway it doesn't look like Geany's fault.
On 2022-09-21 14:25, Lex Trotman wrote:
Well nuts. I use a custom made font for coding (hugely exaggerated
characters where they tend to look like each other, it's really nice)
and somehow the thing got corrupted in a copy, and, yes, the colon
character was 25 X wider than it should have
I just turned on the 'show linefeed' option and it used to be a very
discrete symbol of a 'return' icon, now it's "LF" backlit in a white
box. Can I get the symbol back?
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Can we add items to the 'Open File' left pane? I'd like to add a few
standard directories there if possible.
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On 2022-10-15 08:24, Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi Ray,
On 13.10.22 20:12, Ray Andrews wrote:
> I just turned on the 'show linefeed' option and it used to be a very
> discrete symbol of a 'return' icon, now it's "LF" backlit in a white
> box. Can I get the symbol back?
The
On 2022-09-27 15:07, Lex Trotman wrote:
Ray,
The problem with rants is they can be incoherent, I initially thought
you were talking about menus and commands, but now you seem to be just
talking about the preferences setting process.
I'm talking about the whole paradigm!
1. If it was a single
On 2022-09-27 12:10, Mike Miller wrote:
On 2022-09-27 11:40, Ray Andrews wrote:
Scrolling is better than clicking!
Unfortunately, scrolling is definitely harder for newbies to desktop
computers. Panels are hidden either way. While geany is not solely
for beginners it is used by a lot
On 2022-09-27 18:40, Lex Trotman wrote:
H, I see the paradigm as different, "menus" are selections from a
set of commands, "dialogs" are small GUI windows for setting of
values. Maybe you have the terminology wrong, see philosophical
waffle at the end :-)
Could be that as I start foaming
All:
You know how the active tab is indicated by that thin blue line? I'd
like to edit that if I could to make it more prominent. What's the name
of the file?
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On 2022-12-31 15:51, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 02:17, Ray Andrews via Users
wrote:
All:
You know how the active tab is indicated by that thin blue line?
Since its the GTK theme which is CSS you can override any settings in
the theme with entries in geany.css
On 2022-12-31 21:54, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
Did I not say you override it in `Menu->Tools->Configuration
Files->geany.css`, don't change any existing files! It is GTK CSS
and its overriding works just like real CSS.
AFAIKT the CSS stuff only changes thingies that are solid color.
On 2023-01-06 21:08, bork via Users wrote:
Normally, & esp. for "non-expert" coders (I am not), not a good idea
to edit root owned files. WHEN possible, copy the file into the user
home directory (~/). But not executable or library files, etc.
In your user home dir, you don't (& should
On 2023-01-03 17:23, bork via Users wrote:
notebook > header.top > tabs > tab:hover:not(:checked), notebook >
header.top > tabs > tab:checked {
border-top-width: 3px;
border-top-color: #FC7BF4; /*test- pink top border. Change as
desired. */
margin-top: 0;
padding-top: 1px; }
On 2023-01-04 09:01, Lucas Vieites via Users wrote:
I'm sorry, but I have to correct my previous statements:
- the ~/.config/geany/geany.css file */DOES/* have an influence on the
tab styling, you have to close Geany and restart it to take effect.
The content of the CSS file I included can
On 2023-01-04 08:59, Little Girl via Users wrote:
notebook > header.top > tabs > tab:hover:not(:checked), notebook > header.top >
tabs > tab:checked {
background-color: "white";
border-top-width: 3px;
border-top-color: #FC7BF4;
margin-top: 0;
padding-top: 1px; }
This is pretty anecdotal I can't say anything for sure, but I'm just
coming off a long stint of coding in which Geany was open on my machine
all the time and I'd get system hangs maybe once or twice per day --
once in six or eight hours. Usually the computer would freeze except
that the
On 2023-01-12 15:51, bork via Users wrote:
"Tinkering w/ root owned files" (while off line) is one thing.
But why would you browse the web, download files & any other activity
not needing root, constantly in root mode?
Simply because it's simpler not to have to bounce back and forth.
On 2023-01-12 16:09, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
Well if your systems hung presumably you have to crash/reset it to get
it back? So clearly such files won't get cleaned up, its a GTK/Glib
temporary that maybe isn't getting removed. Search the Geany issues
for goutputstream for some
On 2023-01-12 19:26, Woodrow Stool via Users wrote:
As a note of comparison, I can leave Geany up for days with files
loaded and have experienced no issues with hangs or anything else.
Geany 1.37.1 on Xubuntu 20.04. If your video becomes corrupted maybe
you've got a system power supply that
On 2023-01-01 16:53, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
CSS is definitely where images are specified.
See
https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/css-overview.html#:~:text=CSS%20nodes,each%20node%20are%20linearly%20ordered.
As well as how to specify images, how to specify states, eg active
tab, that has an
On 2022-12-07 12:11, D.T. via Users wrote:
Do you want to type out that exact symbol in geany's editor?
Yes. There should be some way of entering a hex value.
You can copy-paste it though.
I know, but still, one would think there would be some way of typing it in.
echo -e '\e' > file
If I echo some colored text into a file and then look at it in Geany I
see 'ESC' where the escape code is, but how can I recreate that
manually? I've tried '\e[' and '\x1b[' and a few other things but
nothing works.
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On 2022-12-07 15:32, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
ctrl+shift+u hex code enter for any Unicode value
Thanks. Didn't get it right the first time tho, at first you see 'u1b'
and then on ENTER you see 'ESC', as desired.
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On 2022-11-27 14:42, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
AFAIK no current compiler allows stepping through code, thats the
debugger's job.
Try the debugger and scope plugins.
Cheers
Lex
Thanks Lex I will. Any doc you'd recommend to get me up to speed?
Back in the day I could step thru C code in my compiler. Anything like
that in Geany running some zsh script? Especially if one could be
stepping thru code in one window while it executes in another. It could
sure make debugging easier.
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On 2023-01-18 07:47, baughmankr--- via Users wrote:
Until a few weeks ago, the default behavior when using "arrow down" to go to
the next line, the cursor would jump to the beginning of the line. Now it goes to the
space right underneath the cursor on the previous line. I find this so
On 2023-01-18 11:33, Little Girl via Users wrote:
I agree and I like that the cursor stays in the same column on each
In fact, Geany did something similar that drove me nuts when I first
installed it and I would have walked away if I couldn't have changed
it.
Nice when the devs let YOU
On 2023-02-03 14:08, Asif Aaron Amin via Users wrote:
All,
I've developed a plugin (with guidance from Lex Trotman) that
implements bracket pair colorization based on nesting level. This
makes it easier to find start/end braces in deeply nested code that's
included in many IDEs (e.g. VS
On 2023-06-15 05:02, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
Except for the background which is forced to white to avoid emptying
ink/toner by printing background the rest is exactly as per the colour
scheme.
Hey, has that been fixed? Last time I tried printing from Geany, it
insisted on printing my
Greetings:
I'm trying to do a very simple regex: search for 'n_' followed by any
character and preceded by any character except 'n'. I'm no expert but
I'm expecting this to work:
[.^n]n_.
... but it don't.
BTW, possible bug: If I click 'Match only a whole word' then click 'Use
regular
On 2024-01-06 16:19, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
https://developer-old.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-regex-syntax.html
Thanks ... but I was hoping to have my homework done form me ;-)
"Match whole word", "Match from start of word" and "Use escape
sequences" do not apply to regexes, so those
On 2024-01-06 17:09, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
How "grey" it becomes is set by your GTK theme and thats outside
Geanys control, but you can customise it with
Menu->Tools->Configuration Files->geany.css" (if it _really_ matters,
you would have to learn GTK CSS;-)
No no, far from it. A
Not sure if this is a bug or not but it looks like one:
Tabbing is supposta ignore 'odd' leading spaces and take you rightward
to the next multiple of whatever the tab size is, yes? Of course -- we
use tabs to cure raggedness. But I noticed something: if a line has
auto-wrapped, then that
On 2024-01-16 12:39, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
Can't reproduce. Please open issues like this on the Geany github
issue tracker.
Link?
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All:
Very tiny issue: in dialogue boxes, like 'Find' or 'Replace' the font
is lousy, it looks like one of those old typewriter fonts like courier
or something. Can that be replaced? No issue on the main editing
screen, I get the font of my choice. But in the Find dialogue, some of
the
On 2024-03-19 23:30, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
The fonts in dialog boxes are set by the GTK theme you are using,
although it can be tweaked with CSS it is easier to just change the
GTK theme in your distro.
Yeah, thought I'd ask. I like the theme overall -- actually I made my
own, but I
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