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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 de-
     velopment 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: https://www.geany.org/

OPTIONS
	 files ...
	       A space-separated list of filenames. Absolute and relative  file-
	       names can be used. Geany also recognises line and column informa-
	       tion  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  in-
	       stance.	 Only  available  if Geany was compiled with support for
	       Sockets.

     -l, --lineSet 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 file-
	       names 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  in-
	       stallation 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  auto-
	       matically  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 file-
	       name 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.

     -?, --helpShow 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 2.1			  July 06, 2025 			GEANY(1)

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