GEANY(1)                                                              GEANY(1)



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.

       -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/local/share/geany/GPL-2.



geany 0.20                       June 12, 2010                        GEANY(1)
