</p><divclass="table"><aid="id2468796"></a><pclass="title"><b>Table3.1.Commandline Options</b></p><tablesummary="Commandline Options"cellspacing="0"cellpadding="4"border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/><col/></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Short option</th><th>Long option</th><th>Function</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>-n</td><td>--no-ctags</td><td>Do not load auto completion and call tip data.
Use this option, if you do not want to use them. For more
information see <ahref="ch03s03.html#ctags"title="Global C tags">the section called “Global C tags”</a>.
</td></tr><tr><td>-t</td><td>--no-terminal</td><td>Do not load terminal support. Use this option, if you do not
want to load the virtual terminal emulator widget at startup.
If you do not have <codeclass="filename">libvte.so.4</code> installed,
</td></tr><tr><td>-c directory_name</td><td>--config=directory_name</td><td>Use an alternate configuration directory. Default
configuration directory is <codeclass="filename">~/.geany/</code>
and there resides <codeclass="filename">geany.conf</code> and some
template files.
</td></tr><tr><td>-d</td><td>--debug</td><td>Runs Geany in debug mode, which means being verbose
and printing lots of information.
</td></tr><tr><td>-?</td><td>--help</td><td>Show help information and exit.</td></tr><tr><td>-v</td><td>--version</td><td>Show version information and exit.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>[files ...]</td><td>Opens all given files at startup. This option causes Geany to
ignore loading stored files from the last session (if enabled).
