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| Original author | Enrico Tröger |
| Developer | Geany authors |
| Initial release | October 19, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-10-19) |
| Stable release | 2.1.0[1]  / 6 July 2025 |
| Written in | C,C++[2] |
| Operating system | Linux macOS Windows |
| Size | 23 MB (Windows) 28 MB (MacOS) 32 MB (Linux) |
| Type | IDE |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[3] |
| Website | www |
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Geany (/dʒiːni/[4]JEE-NEE) is afree and open-source lightweightGUItext editor[5] usingScintilla andGTK, including basicIDE features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separatepackages or externallibraries on Linux. It has been ported to a wide range of operating systems, such asBSD,Linux,macOS,[6]Solaris andWindows. The Windows port lacks an embedded terminal window; also missing from the Windows version are theexternal development tools present under Unix, unless installed separately by the user.[7] Among the supportedprogramming languages andmarkup languages areC,C++,C#,Ada,Java,JavaScript,PHP,HTML,LaTeX,CSS,Python,Perl,Ruby,Pascal,Haskell,Erlang,Vala and many others.[8]
In contrast to traditional Unix-based editors likeEmacs orVim, Geany more closely resembles programming editors common onMicrosoft Windows such asNotepad++, which also uses Scintilla.[9]
It isfree software licensed under the terms of theGNU GPL version 2 or later.[3] In 2012, the version number was increased to 1.22 from 0.21 to reflect the maturity of the product, as requested by many users.[10] Geany version 1.29 is based by GTK+ 3.22.[11] Version 1.36 is based by GTK+ 3.24.14.[12] Version 1.37.1 is the last version with GTK+ 2.24 support.[13]
In 2018, Geany entered the top 10 integrated development environments for Python in The Indian Wire.[17]In 2021, Geany was named as one of the 12 best Linux text editors in Fossbytes.[18]
Many users told us our version numbers didn't reflect the maturity of Geany to their eyes, and wished it to be changed to reflect that. So after some discussion we decided to rename this version 1.22 instead of 0.22.
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