Geany

Initial Setup

Colorscheme and Font Selection

Geany Themes - add these to ~/.config/geany/colorschemes

Preferences

Geany Plugins

Install these plugins

1. geany-plugin-addons
2. geany-plugin-git-changebar
3. geany-plugin-markdown
4. geany-plugin-spellcheck
5. geany-plugin-treebrowser
6. geany-plugin-insertnum
7. geany-plugin-lineoperations
8. geany-plugin-automark
9. geany-plugin-vimode (availabe/optional)
10. Split Window (installed by default)

geany-plugin-addons

geany-plugin-git-changebar

The git changebar plugin is perfect just the way it is.

geany-plugin-markdown

geany-plugin-spellcheck

No need to change the spellcheck

geany-plugin-treebrowser

geany-plugin-insertnum

Added 06/16/2024

geany-plugin-lineoperations

Added 07/04/2024

• Remove Duplicate Lines, sorted
• Remove Duplicate Lines, ordered
• Remove Unique Lines
• Keep Unique Lines
• Remove Empty Lines
• Remove Whitespace Lines
• Remove Every Nth Line
• Sort Lines Ascending
• Sort Lines Descending

geany-plugin-automark

Added 07/04/2024 - not sure about this but giving it a go for a week or two.

This is a simple plugin that highlights all words that match current word under cursor (see screenshot).

geany-plugin-vimode

I do not use vimode because I don't think it works well. But you can use a keybind in Preferences=>Keybindings In fact, if you have a Plugin enabled (i.e. Tree-browser) you can set custom keybindings within the plugin.

split-window

Conclusion

Hope this helps. I think Geany is phenomenal.

Note

• YouTube video on Geany Part 1

• YouTube video on Geany Part 2