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We've compiled a list of 122 free and paid alternatives to Geany. The primary competitors include Vim, Eclipse. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Geany and Atom, gedit, Aptana Studio. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


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Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment.

Geany Platforms

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Geany Overview

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 GTK2 runtime libraries.

Geany Features

tick-square Vim plugin
tick-square Automatic Indentation
tick-square Support for Large File
tick-square Syntax Highlighting
tick-square Code navigation
tick-square Built-in Terminal
tick-square Shortcut keys
tick-square IDE
tick-square Minimalistic
tick-square Spell checking
tick-square Support for Themes
tick-square Customizable
tick-square Portable
tick-square Lightweight

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