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<spanclass="application">Geany</span> 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. So it is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the
GTK2 runtime libraries to run <spanclass="application">Geany</span>.
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The basic features of <spanclass="application">Geany</span> are:
</p><divclass="itemizedlist"><ultype="disc"><li><p>syntax highlighting</p></li><li><p>code completion</p></li><li><p>auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while</p></li><li><p>auto completion of XML and HTML tags</p></li><li><p>call tips</p></li><li><p>many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal</p></li><li><p>symbol lists</p></li></ul></div><p>
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