Geany's "make" command will use the make file called "makefile" by default, so you can simply give your make file that name and all should be well. Example taken from here. You can find more detailed information on that page as well. If the project does not compile using make as it usually does on Linux , you will also have to edit properties of the project in the menu Project entry Properties. If you want details you could also read the manual, it could seems dumb compared to googling, but it looks quite clear to me Just hit F1 key.
According to this , hit F8 to compile and F5 to run the project. You first have to setup the compiler though, as mentioned in the article. Geany builds projects using external commands. This is flexible and allows the IDE to be language-agnostic, thus being able to build large and heterogeneous projects. All you need is this:.
Save this with the name "Makefile" in the same directory of the sources. Now you have to create the Geany project proper, indicating that the base directory is where the code and Makefile are stored. That's it! Note that it's important that one of your source files has the same name as the target binary, otherwise you cannot user Make's implicit rules, wich complicates the Makefile a bit.
Note that the above applies to Geany on Linux; I have not tested the above commands on other operating systems. You just need to run geany as admin to resolve this. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 11 years ago. Active 8 years, 5 months ago.
The value of these variables is filled in only if Geany knows about it. However, these variables are always set, just maybe with an empty value. You can easily access them e. If the specified command could not be found or not executed, the wildcard is substituted by an empty string.
The toolbar editor can be opened from the preferences editor on the Toolbar tab or by right-clicking on the toolbar itself and choosing it from the menu. To override the system-wide configuration file, copy it to your user configuration directory see Configuration file paths.
Then edit it and add any of the available elements listed in the file or remove any of the existing elements. Of course, you can also reorder the elements as you wish and add or remove additional separators. This opens up a dialog where you can find a huge amount of special characters sorted by category that you might like to use inside your document.
You can expand and collapse the categories by clicking on the little arrow on the left hand side. Once you have found the desired character click on it and choose "Insert".
This will insert the entity for the character at the current cursor position. You might also like to double click the chosen entity instead. Both bulk replacement and immediate replacement during typing are supported. If it's activated, all special characters beside the given exceptions from above known by the plugin will be replaced by their entities. After inserting a huge amount of text, e.
This plugin provides an option to automatically save documents. You can choose to save the current document, or all of your documents, at a given delay. You can save the current document when the editor's focus goes out.
Every pop-up, menu dialogs, or anything else that can make the editor lose the focus, will make the current document to be saved. This might be useful when you often create new files just for testing some code or something similar. This plugin creates a backup copy of the current file in Geany when it is saved. You can specify the directory where the backup copy is saved and you can configure the automatically added extension in the configure dialog in Geany's plugin manager.
After the plugin was loaded in Geany's plugin manager, every file is copied into the configured backup directory after the file has been saved in Geany. The created backup copy file permissions are set to read-write only for the user. This applies only to non-Windows systems. On Windows, no explicit file permissions are set. Additionally, you can define how many levels of the original file's directory structure should be replicated in the backup copy path. For example, setting the option Directory levels to include in the backup destination to 2 cause the plugin to create the last two components of the original file's path in the backup copy path and place the new file there.
This document geany. The source file for it is located in Geany's doc subdirectory. If you intend on making changes, you should grab the source right from Git to make sure you've got the newest version. First, you need to configure the build system to generate the HTML documentation passing the --enable-html-docs option to the configure script.
Then after editing the file, run make from the root build directory or from the doc subdirectory to build the HTML documentation and see how your changes look. This regenerates the geany. The generated PDF file is named geany Note, you will need the Python docutils software package installed to build the docs. The package is named python-docutils on Debian and Fedora systems. Some keys may not be available with some national keyboards or because they are taken by the system such as by a window manager or GTK.
Keyboard equivalents of menu commands are listed in the menus. Some less common commands with no menu equivalent are:. There are some options which can only be changed at compile time, and some options which are used as the default for configurable options. To change these options, edit the appropriate source file in the src subdirectory. Any definitions which are not listed here should not be changed.
These are default settings that can be overridden in the Preferences dialog. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
Binary packages There are many binary packages available. Source compilation Compiling Geany is quite easy. See also Compile-time options. Dynamic linking loader support and VTE In the case that your system lacks dynamic linking loader support, you probably want to pass the option --disable-vte to the configure script.
Build problems If there are any errors during compilation, check your build environment and try to find the error, otherwise contact the mailing list or one the authors. Installation prefix If you want to find Geany's system files after installation you may want to know the installation prefix.
Note Editing system files is not necessary as you should use the per-user configuration files instead, which don't need root permissions.
The Geany workspace The Geany window is shown in the following figure: The workspace has the following parts: The menu. An optional toolbar.
An optional sidebar that can show the following tabs: Documents - A document list, and Symbols - A list of symbols in your code. The main editor window. An optional message window which can show the following tabs: Status - A list of status messages. Compiler - The output of compiling or building programs. Terminal - An optional terminal window. A status bar Most of these can be configured in the Interface preferences , the View menu , or the popup menu for the relevant area.
Additional tabs may be added to the sidebar and message window by plugins. The position of the tabs can be selected in the interface preferences. The sizes of the sidebar and message window can be adjusted by dragging the dividers. Only available if Geany was compiled with support for Sockets. 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.
Use this option if you do not need compiler messages or VTE support. Use this option if you do not want to use them. This is mainly intended for plugin authors to detect installation paths. This only applies to files opened explicitly from the command line, so files from previous sessions or project files are unaffected. Use this option if you do not want to load the virtual terminal emulator widget at startup.
If you do not have libvte. Only available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE. This option is only needed when the auto-detection does not work. You can also pass line number and column number information, e. General Startup At startup, Geany loads all files from the last time Geany was launched.
Opening files from the command-line in a running instance Geany detects if there is an instance of itself already running and opens files from the command-line in that instance. Virtual terminal emulator widget VTE If you have installed libvte.
Note Geany tries to load libvte. Documents Switching between documents The documents list and the editor tabs are two different ways to switch between documents using the mouse. Automatic filename insertion on Save As There are different ways to set different encodings in Geany: Using the file open dialog This opens the file with the encoding specified in the encoding drop down box. Using the "Reload as" menu item This item reloads the current file with the specified encoding. Using the "Set encoding" menu item Contrary to the above two options, this will not change or reload the current file unless you save it.
Specifying the encoding in the file itself As mentioned above, auto-detecting the encoding of a file may fail on some encodings. Special encoding "None" There is a special encoding "None" which uses no encoding.
Note If you are unsure what a BOM is or if you do not understand where to use it, then it is probably not important for you and you can safely ignore it. Editing Folding Geany provides basic code folding support. Note You can customize the folding icon and line styles - see the filetypes. Column mode editing rectangular selections There is basic support for column mode editing. Drag and drop of text If you drag selected text in the editor widget of Geany the text is moved to the position where the mouse pointer is when releasing the mouse button.
Indentation Geany allows each document to indent either with a tab character, multiple spaces or a combination of both. The indent mode for the current document is shown on the status bar as follows: TAB Indent with Tab characters. SP Indent with spaces. Applying new indentation settings After changing the default settings you may wish to apply the new settings to every document in the current session.
Detecting indent type The Detect from file indentation preference can be used to scan each file as it's opened and set the indent type based on how many lines start with a tab vs. Auto-indentation When enabled, auto-indentation happens when pressing Enter in the Editor.
Geany has four types of auto-indentation: None Disables auto-indentation completely. Basic Adds the same amount of whitespace on a new line as on the previous line.
For the Tabs and the Spaces indent types the indentation will use the same combination of characters as the previous line. The Tabs and Spaces indentation type converts as explained above. For Python, a new line will be indented after typing ':' at the end of the previous line.
Match braces Similar to Current chars but the closing brace will be aligned to match the indentation of the line with the opening brace. Bookmarks Geany provides a handy bookmarking feature that lets you mark one or more lines in a document, and return the cursor to them using a key combination.
Code navigation history To ease navigation in source files and especially between different files, Geany lets you jump between different navigation points. Currently, this works for the following: Go to symbol declaration Go to symbol definition Symbol list items Build errors Message items When using one of these actions, Geany remembers your current position and jumps to the new one.
If there is no selection, the whole current line is used instead. Note that the command is not run in a shell, so if you want to use shell features like pipes and command chains, you need to explicitly launch the shell and pass it your command: sh -c 'sort uniq'. Context actions You can execute the context action command on the current word at the cursor position or the available selection. Autocompletion Geany can offer a list of possible completions for symbols defined in the tags files and for all words in open documents.
Word part completion By default, pressing Tab will complete the selected item by word part; useful e. Scope autocompletion E. User-definable snippets Snippets are small strings or code constructs which can be replaced or completed to a more complex string.
Paths You can override the default snippets using the user snippets. Snippet groups The file snippets. Template wildcards Since Geany 0. Word characters You can change the way Geany recognizes the word to complete, that is how the start and end of a word is recognised when the snippet completion is requested. Snippet keybindings Normally you would type the snippet name and press Tab.
Inserting Unicode characters You can insert Unicode code points by hitting Ctrl-Shift-u, then still holding Ctrl-Shift, type some hex digits representing the code point for the character you want and hit Enter or Return still holding Ctrl-Shift.
Search, replace and go to This section describes search-related commands from the Search menu and the editor window's popup menu: Find Find selection Find usage Find in files Replace Go to symbol definition Go to symbol declaration Go to line See also Search preferences.
Toolbar entries There are also two toolbar entries: Search bar Go to line entry There are keybindings to focus each of these - see Focus keybindings. Search bar The quickest way to find some text is to use the search bar entry in the toolbar.
Find The Find dialog is used for finding text in one or more open documents. Matching options The syntax for the Use regular expressions option is shown in Regular expressions. Note Use escape sequences is implied for regular expressions. Find all To find all matches, click on the Find All expander. Change font in search dialog text fields All search related dialogs use a Monospace font for the text input fields to increase the readability of input text.
Find usage Find Usage searches all open files. Note You can also use Find Usage for symbol list items from the popup menu. Find in files Find in Files is a more powerful version of Find Usage that searches all files in a certain directory using the Grep tool. The Files setting allows to choose which files are included in the search, depending on the mode: All Search in all files; Project Use the current project's patterns, see Project properties ; Custom Use custom patterns. The Extra options field is used to pass any additional arguments to the grep tool.
Filtering out version control files When using the Recurse in subfolders option with a directory that's under version control, you can set the Extra options field to filter out version control files.
Replace The Replace dialog is used for replacing text in one or more open documents. Replace all To replace several matches, click on the Replace All expander. Go to symbol definition If the current word or selection is the name of a symbol definition e. Note If the corresponding symbol is on the current line, Geany will first look for a symbol declaration instead, as this is more useful. Go to symbol declaration Like Go to symbol definition , but for a forward declaration such as a C function prototype or extern declaration instead of a function body.
Go to line Go to a particular line number in the current file. Regular expressions You can use regular expressions in the Find and Replace dialogs by selecting the Use regular expressions check box see Matching options.
Note The Use escape sequences dialog option always applies for regular expressions. Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported. The Use multi-line matching dialog option to select single or multi-line matching. Multi-line regular expressions Note The Use multi-line matching dialog option enables multi-line regular expressions. View menu The View menu allows various elements of the main window to be shown or hidden, and also provides various display-related editor options.
Symbols and tags files Upon opening, files of supported filetypes are parsed to extract the symbol information aka "workspace symbols". Workspace symbols Each document is parsed for symbols whenever a file is loaded, saved or modified see Symbol list update frequency preference in the Editor Completions preferences. Global tags files Global tags files are used to provide symbols for autocompletion and calltips without having to open the source files containing these symbols.
You can load a custom global tags file in two ways: Using the Load Tags File command in the Tools menu. By moving or symlinking tags files to the tags subdirectory of one of the configuration file paths before starting Geany. You can either download these files or generate your own. They have the format: name.
Default global tags files Some global tags files are distributed with Geany and will be loaded automatically when the corresponding filetype is first used. LaTeX Python. Pipe-separated format The Pipe-separated format is easier to read and write. A line looks like: basename string string path [, string suffix] The first field is the symbol name usually a function name. The fourth field is the description for this symbol but currently unused and should be left empty.
CTags format This is the format that ctags generates, and that is used by Vim. Generating a global tags file You can generate your own global tags files by parsing a list of source files. Use this option if you want to specify each source file on the command-line instead of using a 'master' header file.
Example for the wxD library for the D programming language: geany -g wxd. C ignore. This option is specifically provided to handle special cases arising through the use of pre-processor macros. When the identifiers listed are simple identifiers, these identifiers will be ignored during parsing of the source files. For even more detailed information please read the manual page of Exuberant Ctags. Note In the paragraphs that follow, the text describing a dialog tab comes after the screenshot of that tab.
General Startup preferences Startup Load files from the last session On startup, load the same files you had open the last time you used Geany.
Load virtual terminal support Load the library for running a terminal in the message window area. Enable plugin support Allow plugins to be used in Geany. Shutdown Save window position and geometry Save the current position and size of the main window so next time you open Geany it's in the same location.
Confirm Exit Have a dialog pop up to confirm that you really want to quit Geany. Paths Startup path Path to start in when opening or saving files. It must be an absolute path. Project files Path to start in when opening project files. Extra plugin path By default Geany looks in the system installation and the user configuration - see Plugins. In addition the path entered here will be searched. Usually you do not need to set an additional path to search for plugins. It might be useful when Geany is installed on a multi-user machine and additional plugins are available in a common location for all users.
Leave blank to not set an additional lookup path. General Miscellaneous preferences Miscellaneous Beep on errors when compilation has finished Have the computer make a beeping sound when compilation of your program has completed or any errors occurred. Switch status message list at new message Switch to the status message tab in the notebook window at the bottom once a new status message arrives. Suppress status messages in the status bar Remove all messages from the status bar.
Tip Another option is to use the Switch to Editor keybinding - it reshows the document statistics on the status bar. Search Always wrap search Always wrap search around the document when finding a match.
Use the current word under the cursor for Find dialogs Use current word under the cursor when opening the Find, Find in Files or Replace dialog and there is no selection. When this option is disabled, the search term last used in the appropriate Find dialog is used. Use the current file's directory for Find in Files When opening the Find in Files dialog, set the directory to search to the directory of the current active file. When this option is disabled, the directory of the last use of the Find in Files dialog is used.
See Find in Files for details. Projects Use project-based session files Save your current session when closing projects. You will be able to resume different project sessions, automatically opening the files you had open previously.
Store project file inside the project base directory When creating new projects, the default path for the project file contains the project base path. Without this option enabled, the default project file path is one level above the project base path. In either case, you can easily set the final project file path in the New Project dialog. This option provides the more common defaults automatically for convenience.
Interface preferences Sidebar Show sidebar Whether to show the sidebar at all. Show symbol list Show the list of functions, variables, and other information in the current document you are editing. Show documents list Show all the documents you have open currently. This can be used to change between documents see Switching between documents and to perform some common operations such as saving, closing and reloading.
Position Whether to place the sidebar on the left or right of the editor window. Message window Position Whether to place the message window on the bottom or right of the editor window.
Fonts Editor Change the font used to display documents. Symbol list Change the font used for the Symbols sidebar tab. Message window Change the font used for the message window area. Miscellaneous Show status bar Show the status bar at the bottom of the main window. It gives information about the file you are editing like the line and column you are on, whether any modifications were done, the file encoding, the filetype and other information.
Interface Notebook tab preferences Editor tabs Show editor tabs Show a notebook tab for all documents so you can switch between them using the mouse instead of using the Documents window. Show close buttons Make each tab show a close button so you can easily close open documents. Placement of new file tabs Whether to create a document with its notebook tab to the left or right of all existing tabs.
Next to current Whether to place file tabs next to the current tab rather than at the edges of the notebook. Tab positions Editor Set the positioning of the editor's notebook tabs to the right, left, top, or bottom of the editing window.
Sidebar Set the positioning of the sidebar's notebook tabs to the right, left, top, or bottom of the sidebar window. Message window Set the positioning of the message window's notebook tabs to the right, left, top, or bottom of the message window.
Interface Toolbar preferences Affects the main toolbar underneath the menu bar. Toolbar Show Toolbar Whether to show the toolbar. Append Toolbar to the Menu Allows to append the toolbar to the main menu bar instead of placing it below. This is useful to save vertical space. Customize Toolbar See Customizing the toolbar.
Appearance Icon Style Select the toolbar icon style to use - either icons and text, just icons or just text. The choice System default uses whatever icon style is set by GTK. Icon size Select the size of the icons you see large, small or very small. The choice System default uses whatever icon size is set by GTK. Editor Features preferences Features Line wrapping Show long lines wrapped around to new display lines.
Pressing it again will go to the very start of the line. Disable Drag and Drop Do not allow the dragging and dropping of selected text in documents. Use indicators to show compile errors Underline lines with compile errors using red squiggles to indicate them in the editor area. See also Strip trailing spaces. Note auto indentation is calculated before stripping, so although this setting will clear a blank line, it will not set the next line indentation back to zero.
Line breaking column The editor column number to insert a newline at when Line Breaking is enabled for the current document. Comment toggle marker A string which is added when toggling a line comment in a source file. It is used to mark the comment as toggled. Editor Indentation preferences Indentation group See Indentation for more information. Width The width of a single indent size in spaces. By default the indent size is equivalent to 4 spaces.
Detect width from file Try to detect and set the indent width based on file content, when a file is opened. Type When Geany inserts indentation, whether to use: Just Tabs Just Spaces Tabs and Spaces, depending on how much indentation is on a line The Tabs and Spaces indent type is also known as Soft tab support in some other editors.
Detect type from file Try to detect and set the indent type based on file content, when a file is opened. Auto-indent mode The type of auto-indentation you wish to use after pressing Enter, if any. Basic Just add the indentation of the previous line. Tab key indents If set, pressing tab will indent the current line or selection, and unindent when pressing Shift-tab. Editor Completions preferences Completions Snippet Completion Whether to replace special keywords after typing Tab into a pre-defined text snippet.
See User-definable snippets. Autocomplete symbols When you start to type a symbol name, look for the full string to allow it to be completed for you. Autocomplete all words in document When you start to type a word, Geany will search the whole document for words starting with the typed part to complete it, assuming there are no symbol names to show. Drop rest of word on completion Remove any word part to the right of the cursor when choosing a completion list item. Characters to type for autocompletion Number of characters of a word to type before autocompletion is displayed.
Completion list height The number of rows to display for the autocompletion window. Symbol list update frequency The minimum delay in milliseconds between two symbol list updates. Auto-close quotes and brackets Geany can automatically insert a closing bracket and quote characters when you open them. Editor Display preferences This is for visual elements displayed in the editor window. Display Invert syntax highlighting colors Invert all colors, by default this makes white text on a black background.
Show indendation guides Show vertical lines to help show how much leading indentation there is on each line. Show line endings Display a symbol everywhere that a carriage return or line feed is present. Show line numbers Show or hide the Line Number margin. Show markers margin Show or hide the small margin right of the line numbers, which is used to mark lines. Stop scrolling at last line When enabled Geany stops scrolling when at the last line of the document.
Otherwise you can scroll one more page even if there are no real lines. Lines visible around the cursor The number of lines to maintain between the cursor and the top and bottom edges of the view. This allows some lines of context around the cursor to always be visible.
If Stop scrolling at last line is disabled, the cursor will never reach the bottom edge when this value is greater than 0. Long line marker The long line marker helps to indicate overly-long lines, or as a hint to the user for when to break the line. Type Line Show a thin vertical line in the editor window at the given column position. Background Change the background color of characters after the given column position to the color set below.
This is recommended over the Line setting if you use proportional fonts. Disabled Don't mark long lines at all. Long line marker Set this value to a value greater than zero to specify the column where it should appear. Long line marker color Set the color of the long line marker. Virtual spaces Virtual space is space beyond the end of each line.
Disabled Do not show virtual spaces Only for rectangular selections Only show virtual spaces beyond the end of lines when drawing a rectangular selection Always Always show virtual spaces beyond the end of lines. Files preferences New files Open new documents from the command-line Whether to create new documents when passing filenames that don't exist from the command-line. Default encoding new files The type of file encoding you wish to use when creating files.
Used fixed encoding when opening files Assume all files you are opening are using the type of encoding specified below. Default encoding existing files Opens all files with the specified encoding instead of auto-detecting it. Use this option when it's not possible for Geany to detect the exact encoding.
Default end of line characters The end of line characters to which should be used for new files. Saving files Perform formatting operations when a document is saved. Ensure newline at file end Add a newline at the end of the document if one is missing.
Ensure consistent line endings Ensures that newline characters always get converted before saving, avoiding mixed line endings in the same file. Strip trailing spaces Remove any whitespace at the end of each document line.
Note This does not apply to Diff documents, e. Note It is better to use spaces to indent than use this preference - see Indentation. Miscellaneous Recent files list length The number of files to remember in the recently used files list. Disk check timeout The number of seconds to periodically check the current document's file on disk in case it has changed. Note These checks are only performed on local files.
Tools preferences Tool paths Terminal The command to execute a script in a terminal. Browser The location of your web browser executable. Grep The location of the grep executable. Note For Windows users: at the time of writing it is recommended to use the grep. Commands Context action Set this to a command to execute on the current word. Template preferences This data is used as meta data for various template text to insert into a document, such as the file header. Template data Developer The name of the developer who will be creating files.
Initials The initials of the developer. Mail address The email address of the developer. Note You may wish to add anti-spam markup, e. Keybinding preferences There are some commands listed in the keybinding dialog that are not, by default, bound to a key combination, and may not be available as a menu item.
Note For more information see the section Keybindings. Printing preferences Use external command for printing Use a system command to print your file out. Print line numbers Print the line numbers on the left of your paper. Print page number Print the page number on the bottom right of your paper. Print page header Print a header on every page that is sent to the printer.
Use base name of the printed file Don't use the entire path for the header, only the filename. Date format How the date should be printed.
Various preferences Rarely used preferences, explained in the table below. Only used when the keybinding Complete snippet is set to Space.
If set to false, the horizontal and vertical scrollbars are hidden completely. Don't change it unless you really need to; use the indentation settings instead. See Statusbar Templates for details.
See below. This is mainly a security feature. If, for whatever reasons, you really want it to be executed directly, set this option to true. Note that leading spaces must be escaped using s in the configuration file. By default, the Save button and menu item are disabled when a file is unchanged. When setting this option to true, the Save button and menu item are always active and files can be saved. If disabled, Geany directly writes the content of the document to disk.
This might cause loss of data when there is no more free space on disk to save the file. When set to true, Geany first saves the contents into a temporary file and if this succeeded, the temporary file is moved to the real file to save. This gives better error checking in case of no more free disk space. But it also destroys hard links of the original file and its permissions e. Use this with care as it can break things seriously.
The better approach would be to ensure your disk won't run out of free space. It is better on most situations but is known not to work correctly on some complex setups. If unsaved changes exist then the user is prompted to reload manually. This helps to prevent accidentally losing the session file list or other changed settings when Geany is not shut down cleanly.
Disable this option if your configuration directory is on a slow drive, network share or similar and you experience problems. Only available on Windows, valid port range: to None, Python, C, etc. This is useful if you're debugging color schemes or related code. Terminal widget Terminal font Select the font that will be used in the terminal emulation control.
Foreground color Select the font color. Background color Select the background color of the terminal. Background image Select the background image to show behind the terminal's text. Scrollback lines The number of lines buffered so that you can scroll though the history. Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.
It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. Download Geany 1. Many editors meet one or more of these requirements but fall short on others.
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