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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  fold-
       ing,  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 num-
                 ber). 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  configura-
                 tion   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 snip-
                 pets configuration).

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

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





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       -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 direc-
                 tory 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-sup-
                 port  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 lib-
                 vte.so.  This  option  is only needed, when the autodetection
                 doesn't work. Only available if Geany was compiled with  sup-
                 port for VTE.



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       -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.






































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