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NAME

       Geany — a small and lightweight IDE

SYNOPSIS

       geany [option]  [+number]  [files ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Geany is a small and fast editor with basic features of an integrated development environment.

       Some  of  its  features:  syntax  highlighting,  code completion, code folding, symbol/tag lists and many
       supported filetypes like C(++), Java, PHP, HTML, DocBook, Perl and more.

       Homepage: http://www.geany.org/

OPTIONS

           files ...
                 A space-separated list of filenames. Absolute and relative filenames can be  used.  Geany  also
                 recognises  line and column information when appended to the filename with colons, e.g.  "geany
                 foo.bar:10:5" will open the file foo.bar and place the cursor in line 10 at column 5.

                 Projects can also be opened but a project file (*.geany) must be the first non-option argument.
                 All additionally given files are ignored.

           +number
                 Set  initial  line number for the first opened file (same as --line, do not put a space between
                 the + sign and the number). E.g. "geany +7 foo.bar" will open the file foo.bar  and  place  the
                 cursor in line 7.

           --column
                 Set initial column number for the first opened file (useful in conjunction with --line).

       -c, --config
                 Use  an  alternate configuration directory. Default configuration directory is ~/.config/geany/
                 and there resides geany.conf and some template files.

           --ft-names
                 Print a list of Geany's internal filetype names (useful snippets configuration).

       -g, --generate-tags
                 Generate a global tags file (see documentation).

       -P, --no-preprocessing
                 Don't preprocess C/C++ files when generating tags.

       -i, --new-instance
                 Don't open files in a running instance, force opening a new instance.  Only available if  Geany
                 was compiled with support for Sockets.

       -l, --line
                 Set initial line number for the first opened file.

           --list-documents
                 Return  a  list  of  open  documents in a running Geany instance.  This can be used to read the
                 currently opened documents in Geany from an external script  or  tool.  The  returned  list  is
                 separated  by newlines (LF) and consists of the full, UTF-8 encoded filenames of the documents.
                 Only available if Geany was compiled with support for Sockets.

       -m, --no-msgwin
                 Don't show the message window. Use this option if you  don't  need  compiler  messages  or  VTE
                 support.

       -n, --no-ctags
                 Don't load symbol completion and call tip data. Use this option, if you don't want to use them.
                 For more information please see documentation.

       -p, --no-plugins
                 Don't load plugin support.

           --print-prefix
                 Print installation prefix, the data directory, the lib directory and the locale  directory  (in
                 this  order)  to  stdout,  each  per line. This is mainly intended for plugin authors to detect
                 installation paths.

       -r, --read-only
                 Open all files given on the command line in read-only mode. This only applies to  files  opened
                 explicitly  from  the  command  line,  so  files  from  previous  sessions or project files are
                 unaffected.

       -s, --no-session
                 Don't load the previous session's files.

       -t, --no-terminal
                 Don't load terminal support. Use this option, if you don't want to load  the  virtual  terminal
                 emulator  widget  at startup. If you don't have libvte.so.4 installed, then terminal-support is
                 automatically disabled. Only available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE.

           --socket-file
                 Use this socket filename for communication with a running Geany instance

           --vte-lib
                 Specify explicitly the path including filename or only the filename to the  VTE  library,  e.g.
                 /usr/lib/libvte.so  or  libvte.so.  This  option is only needed, when the autodetection doesn't
                 work. Only available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE.

       -v, --verbose
                 Be verbose (print useful status messages).

       -V, --version
                 Show version information and exit.

       -?, --help
                 Show help information and exit.

       Geany supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help screen.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by the Geany developer team.  Permission  is  granted  to  copy,  distribute
       and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/geany/GPL-2.