Chapter 3. Usage

Table of Contents

Getting started
Command line options
General
Startup
Opening files from the command-line in a running instance
Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)
Defining own widget styles using .gtkrc-2.0
Character sets and Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
Using character sets
Special encoding "None"
Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
Editing
Drag and drop of text
Auto indentation
Construct completion
Bookmarks
Send text through definable commands
Context actions
Search, replace and go to
Find
Find usage
Find in files
Replace
Go to tag definition
Go to tag declaration
Go to line
Regular expressions
Tags
Workspace tags
Global tags
Preferences
Project Management
New Project
Project Properties
Close Project
Open Project
Build system
Compile
Build
Make all
Make custom target
Make object
Execute
Stopping running processes
Set Includes and Arguments
Indicators
File type configuration settings
Printing support
Keybindings

Getting started

You can start Geany in the following ways:

  • From the Desktop Environment menu

    Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment: DevelopmentGeany.

  • From the command line

    To start Geany from a command line, type the following and press Return:

    								% geany