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Updated keybindings actions and compile time options. git-svn-id: https://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany/trunk@521 ea778897-0a13-0410-b9d1-a72fbfd435f5
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15"><title>General</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="geany.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="
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Geany 0.8
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"><link rel="up" href="ch03.html" title="Chapter 3. Usage"><link rel="prev" href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options"><link rel="next" href="ch03s04.html" title="Search and Replace"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">General</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch03s02.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Usage</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03s04.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="general"></a>General</h2></div></div></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_startup"></a>Startup</h3></div></div></div><p>
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At startup, Geany loads the first 15 files from the last time
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<span class="application">Geany</span> was launched. You can disable this feature in the
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preferences dialog(see <a href="ch03s05.html#confdialog_gen" title="Figure 3.2. General tab in preferences dialog">Figure 3.2, “General tab in preferences dialog”</a>). If you specify some files on
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the command line, only these files will be opened, but you can find the files from the
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last session in the file menu under the "Recent files" item. This contains the last
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15 recently opened files. It may be that Geany loads not exactly 15 session files, this depends
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on the compile time option GEANY_SESSION_FILES; the default is 15. For details see
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<a href="ch03s05.html#cto" title="Compile time options">the section called “Compile time options”</a>.
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</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_fifo"></a>Detection of a running instance</h3></div></div></div><p>
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Geany detects an already running instance of itself and opens new files in the already running one.
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So, you can use Geany like an editor to view and edit files by opening them from other
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programs. If you do not like this for some reason, you can disable it with the appropriate
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command line option.
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</p><p>
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In the case that Geany crashed, you will get a message dialog at the next start,
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which asks you whether to delete an existing named pipe. If you are sure that there is
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no other instance of Geany is running, you can say Yes and Geany will start as usual.
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Otherwise click No and Geany will not start.
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</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_ctags"></a>Global C tags</h3></div></div></div><p>
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If a C file (with extension .c, .cpp, .h, etc.) is opened, a global tags file is
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loaded once, which contains many function declarations from glibc and some other
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libraries, like X, Bonobo, Gnome, GTK, Glib and so on. These declarations are used
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for call tips and auto completion. These tags are only useful if you are writing
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C or C++ source code, so if you know that you do not need these things, you can skip
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loading this tag file. To do so, start <span class="application">Geany</span> with the
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argument "-n" or "--no-ctags", for more information see <a href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options">the section called “Command line options”</a>.
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</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_vte"></a>Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)</h3></div></div></div><p>
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If you have installed <code class="filename">libvte.so</code> in your system, it is loaded
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automatically by <span class="application">Geany</span>, and you will have a terminal widget
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in the notebook at the bottom.
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</p><p>
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If <span class="application">Geany</span> cannot find <code class="filename">libvte.so</code> at
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startup, the terminal widget will not be loaded. So there is no need to install the
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package containing this file in order to run <span class="application">Geany</span>.
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Additionally, you can disable the use of the terminal widget by command line option,
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for more information see <a href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options">the section called “Command line options”</a>.
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</p><p>
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You can use this terminal (from now on called VTE) nearly as an usual terminal program
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like xterm. There is basic clipboard support. You can paste the contents
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of the clipboard by pressing the right mouse button to open the popup menu and
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choosing Paste.
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To copy text from the VTE, just select the desired text and then press the
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right mouse button and choose Copy from the popup menu.
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On systems running the X Window System you can paste the last selected text by
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pressing the middle mouse button in the VTE (on 2-button mice,
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the middle button can often be simulated by pressing both mouse buttons together).
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</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>Geany tries to load <code class="filename">libvte.so</code>. If this fails, it tries to
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load <code class="filename">libvte.so.4</code>. If this fails too, you should check whether
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you installed libvte correctly. Again, Geany also runs without this library.
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</p><p>
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It could be, that the library is called something else than
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<code class="filename">libvte.so.4</code> (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.0 it is called
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<code class="filename">libvte.so.8</code>). So please set a link to the correct file (as root).
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</p><pre class="screen"><code class="prompt">#</code> <strong class="userinput"><code><span><strong class="command">ln -s /usr/lib/libvte.so.X /usr/lib/libvte.so.4</strong></span></code></strong></pre><p>
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Obviously, you have to adjust the paths and set X to the number of your
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<code class="filename">libvte.so</code>.
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