Enrico
Tröger

    &author_mail;

Nick
Treleaven

    nick.treleaven@btinternet.com

Frank
Lanitz

    frank@frank.uvena.de

2005-2006

This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program and see .

# &app; &appversion;

## Introduction

### About Geany

&app; is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME, so &app; only requires the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you only need the GTK2 runtime libraries installed to run it.

The basic features of &app; are:

- Syntax highlighting

- Code completion

- Auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while

- Auto completion of XML and HTML tags

- Call tips

- Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal

- Tag/Symbol lists

### About this document

This documentation is available in various formats like HTML, text and PDF. The latest version is always available at &appurl;.

### Where to get it

You can obtain &app; from &appurl; or perhaps from your distributor.

### License

&app; is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program or see .

The included Scintilla library (found in the subdirectory scintilla/) has its own license, which can be found in the appendix (see ).

## Installation

### Requirements

For compiling &app; yourself, you will need the GTK (>= 2.6.0) libraries and header files. You will also need the Pango, Glib and ATK libraries and header files. All these files are available at http://www.gtk.org.

Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler and the Make tool; a C++ compiler is also required for the included Scintilla library. The GNU versions of these tools are recommended.

### Source compilation

Compiling &app; is quite easy. The following should do it:

    					% ./configure
    					% make
    					% make install

The configure script supports several common options, for a detailed list, type

    					% ./configure --help

In the case that your system lacks dynamic linking loader support, you probably want to pass the option --disable-vte to the configure script. This prevents compiling &app; with dynamic linking loader support to automatically load `libvte.so.4` if available.

&app; has been successfully compiled and tested under Debian 3.1 Sarge, Debian 3.2 Etch, Fedora Core 4, LinuxFromScratch and FreeBSD 6.0. It also compiles under Microsoft Windows, but there are lots of changes to the makefiles necessary.

If there are any errors during compilation, check your build environment and try to find the error, otherwise contact the author at &author_mail;.

### Binary packages

#### Fedora

You can use the Fedora Core 4 repository from http://naturidentisch.de/packages/fc4/.

#### Debian

Binary packages for Debian are available at &deburl;/. You can add one of the following lines(depending on your system) to your apt `sources.list` to automatically get the latest version of &app;:

`deb &deburl;/ ./stable/`

`deb &deburl;/ ./testing/`

#### SuSE

Packages for SuSE are not yet available.

#### Gentoo

An ebuild for Gentoo can be found on http://www.gentoo.de.

## Usage

### Getting started

You can start &app; in the following ways:

- From the Desktop Environment menu

  Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment: Development &app; .

- From the command line

  To start &app; from a command line, type the following and press Return:

      								% &app_small;

### Command line options

#### Command line Options

Short option | Long option | Function
--- | --- | ---
-n | --no-ctags | Do not load auto completion and call tip data. Use this option if you do not want to use them.
-m | --no-msgwin | Do not show the message window. Use this option if you do not need compiler messages or VTE support.
-p | --no-pipe | Do not open files in a running instance, force opening a new instance.
-t | --no-terminal | Do not load terminal support. Use this option if you do not want to load the virtual terminal emulator widget at startup. If you do not have `libvte.so.4` installed, then terminal-support is automatically disabled.
-l | --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 does not work.
-c directory_name | --config=directory_name | Use an alternate configuration directory. Default configuration directory is `~/.&app_small;/` and there resides `&app_small;.conf` and other configuration files.
-d | --debug | Run &app; in debug mode, which means being verbose and printing lots of information.
-? | --help | Show help information and exit.
-v | --version | Show version information and exit.
| [files ...] | Open all given files at startup. This option causes &app; to ignore loading stored files from the last session (if enabled).

&app; supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help screen.

### General

#### Startup

At startup, &app; loads the first 15 files from the last time &app; was launched. You can disable this feature in the preferences dialog(see ). If you specify some files on the command line, only these files will be opened, but you can find the files from the last session in the file menu under the "Recent files" item. This contains the last 15 recently opened files. It may be that &app; loads not exactly 15 session files, this depends on the compile time option GEANY_SESSION_FILES; the default is 15. For details see .

#### Detection of a running instance

&app; detects an already running instance of itself and opens new files in the already running one. So, you can use &app; like an editor to view and edit files by opening them from other programs. If you do not like this for some reason, you can disable it with the appropriate command line option.

In the case that &app; crashed, you will get a message dialog at the next start, which asks you whether to delete an existing named pipe. If you are sure that there is no other instance of &app; is running, you can say Yes and &app; will start as usual. Otherwise click No and Geany will not start.

#### Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)

If you have installed `libvte.so` in your system, it is loaded automatically by &app;, and you will have a terminal widget in the notebook at the bottom.

If &app; cannot find `libvte.so` at startup, the terminal widget will not be loaded. So there is no need to install the package containing this file in order to run &app;. Additionally, you can disable the use of the terminal widget by command line option, for more information see .

You can use this terminal (from now on called VTE) nearly as an usual terminal program like xterm. There is basic clipboard support. You can paste the contents of the clipboard by pressing the right mouse button to open the popup menu and choosing Paste. To copy text from the VTE, just select the desired text and then press the right mouse button and choose Copy from the popup menu. On systems running the X Window System you can paste the last selected text by pressing the middle mouse button in the VTE (on 2-button mice, the middle button can often be simulated by pressing both mouse buttons together).

&app; tries to load `libvte.so`. If this fails, it tries to load `libvte.so.4`. If this fails too, you should check whether you installed libvte correctly. Again, &app; also runs without this library.

It could be, that the library is called something else than `libvte.so.4` (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.0 it is called `libvte.so.8`). So please set a link to the correct file (as root).

    # ln -s /usr/lib/libvte.so.X /usr/lib/libvte.so.4

Obviously, you have to adjust the paths and set X to the number of your `libvte.so`.

### Character sets and Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)

&app; provides support for detecting and converting character sets. So you can open and save files in different character sets and even can convert a file from a character set to another one. To do this, &app; uses the character conversion capabilities of the GLib.

Furthermore, Geany detects an Unicode Byte Order Mark (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark for details). Of course, this feature is only available if the opened file is in an unicode encoding. The Byte Order Mark helps to detect the encoding of a file, e.g. whether it is UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE and so on. On Unix-like systems using a Byte Order Mark could cause some problems, e.g. the gcc stops with stray errors, PHP does not parse a script containing a BOM and script files starting with a she-bang maybe cannot be started. In the status bar you can easily see whether the file starts with a BOM or not. If you want to set a BOM for a file or if you want to remove it from a file, just use the document menu and toggle the checkbox.

If you are unsure what a BOM is or if you do not understand where to use it, then it is not important for you and you can safely ignore it.

### Search, replace and go to

This section describes search-related commands from the Search menu and the editor window's popup menu:

- Find

- Find usage *

- Find in files

- Replace

- Go to tag definition *

- Go to tag declaration *

- Go to line

* These items are available from the editor window's popup menu, or by using a keyboard shortcut (see ).

#### Find

The Find dialog is used for finding text within the current document. The syntax for the "Use regular expressions" option is shown in .

##### Find dialog

#### Find usage

Find usage searches all open files. If there is a selection, then it is used as the search text; otherwise the current word is used. The current word is either taken from the word nearest the edit cursor, or the word underneath the popup menu click position when the popup menu is used. The search results are shown in the Messages window.

#### Find in files

Find in files is a more powerful version of Find usage that searches all files in a certain directory using the Grep tool. The Grep tool must be correctly set in Preferences to the path of the system's Grep utility.

#### Replace

The Replace dialog has the same options for finding text as the Find dialog. There is also a "Replace in all files" option, which is used with the Replace All button to perform the replacement for all open files.

The "Use regular expressions" option applies both to the search string and to the replacement text; for the latter back references can be used - see the entry for '\n' in .

#### Go to tag definition

If the current word is the name of a function and the file containing the function definition (a.k.a. function body) is open, Go to tag definition will switch to that file and go to the corresponding line number. The current word is either taken from the word nearest the edit cursor, or the word underneath the popup menu click position when the popup menu is used.

#### Go to tag declaration

Like Go to tag definition, but for a forward function declaration (a.k.a. function prototype) instead of a function definition.

#### Go to line

Go to a particular line number in the current file.

#### Regular expressions

You can use regular expressions in the Find and Replace dialogs by selecting the "Use regular expressions" check box. The syntax is POSIX-like, as described below in .

Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported.

##### Regular expressions

In a regular expression, the following characters are interpreted:
. | Matches any character.
( | This marks the start of a region for tagging a match.
) | This marks the end of a tagged region.
\n | Where n is 1 through 9 refers to the first through ninth tagged region when replacing. For example, if the search string was Fred([1-9])XXX and the replace string was Sam\1YYY, when applied to Fred2XXX this would generate Sam2YYY.
\< | This matches the start of a word.
\> | This matches the end of a word.
\x | This allows you to use a character x that would otherwise have a special meaning. For example, \[ would be interpreted as [ and not as the start of a character set. Use \\ for a literal backslash.
[...] | This indicates a set of characters, for example, [abc] means any of the characters a, b or c. You can also use ranges, for example [a-z] for any lower case character.
[^...] | The complement of the characters in the set. For example, [^A-Za-z] means any character except an alphabetic character.
^ | This matches the start of a line (unless used inside a set, see above).
$ | This matches the end of a line.
* | This matches 0 or more times. For example, Sa*m matches Sm, Sam, Saam, Saaam and so on.
+ | This matches 1 or more times. For example, Sa+m matches Sam, Saam, Saaam and so on.

##### Partial POSIX compatibility

Note that the POSIX '?' regular expression character for optional matching is not supported by the Find and Replace dialogs.

### Preferences

should be written

#### General tab in preferences dialog

#### Interface tab in preferences dialog

#### Toolbar tab in preferences dialog

#### Editor tab in preferences dialog

#### Tools tab in preferences dialog

#### Template tab in preferences dialog

#### Keybinding tab in preferences dialog

For more information see .

#### VTE tab in preferences dialog

#### Compile time options

There are some options which can only be changed at compile time. To change these options, edit the file `src/geany.h`. Look for a block of lines starting with #define GEANY_*. Any definitions which are not listed here should not be changed.

##### Compile time options

Option | Description | Default
--- | --- | ---
GEANY_MAX_OPEN_FILES | The limit to how many files can be open at the same time. | 25
GEANY_SESSION_FILES | How many files should be reopened from the last run. Obviously, the value should be smaller than GEANY_MAX_OPEN_FILES. | 15
GEANY_WORDCHARS | These characters define word boundaries. | (look at sourcecode)
GEANY_MAX_AUTOCOMPLETE_WORDS | How many auto completion suggestions should &app; provide. | 30
GEANY_STRING_UNTITLED | A string used as the default name for new files. Be aware that the string can be translated, so change it only if you know what you are doing. | untitled
GEANY_CHECK_FILE_DELAY | Time in seconds between checking a file for external changes. | 30
GEANY_WINDOW_MINIMAL_WIDTH | The minimal width of the main window. | 620
GEANY_WINDOW_MINIMAL_HEIGHT | The minimal height of the main window. | 440
GEANY_WINDOW_DEFAULT_WIDTH | The default width of the main window at the first start. | 900
GEANY_WINDOW_DEFAULT_HEIGHT | The default height of the main window at the first start. | 600
Default values
GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_MAKE | The make tool. This can also include a path. | "make"
GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_TERMINAL | A terminal emulator. It has to accept the command line option "-e". This can also include a path. | "xterm"
GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_BROWSER | A web browser. This can also include a path. | "mozilla"
GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_PRINTCMD | A printing tool. It should be able to accept and process plain text files. This can also include a path. | "lpr"
GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_GREP | A grep tool. It should be compatible with GNU grep. This can also include a path. | "grep"
GEANY_DEFAULT_MRU_LENGHTH | The length of the "Recent files" list. | "10"
GEANY_DEFAULT_FONT_SYMBOL_LIST | The font used in sidebar to show symbols and open files. | "Cursor 8"
GEANY_DEFAULT_FONT_MSG_WINDOW | The font used in the messages window. | "Cursor 8"
GEANY_DEFAULT_FONT_EDITOR | The font used in the editor window. | "Courier New 9"

### Build system

&app; has an integrated build system. Firstly this means that the current source file will be saved before it is processed. This is for convenience so that you don't need to keep saving small changes to the current file before building.

Secondly the output for Compile, Build and Make actions will be captured in the Compiler notebook tab of the messages window (assuming you have it visible). If there are any warnings or errors with line numbers shown in the Compiler output tab, you can double click on them and &app; will switch to the relevant source file (if it is open) and mark the line number so the problem can be corrected. &app; will also set indicators for warnings or errors with line numbers.

Depending on the current file's filetype, the Build menu will contain the following items:

- Compile

- Build

- Make all

- Make custom target

- Make object

- Execute

- Set Includes and Arguments

#### Compile

The Compile command has different uses for different kinds of files.

For compilable languages such as C and C++, the Compile command is setup to compile the current source file into a binary object file.

Java source files will be compiled to class file bytecode. Interpreted languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby will compile to bytecode if the language supports it, or will run a syntax check, or failing that will run the file in its language interpreter.

#### Build

For compilable languages such as C and C++, the Build command will link the current source file's equivalent object file into an executable. If the object file does not exist, the source will be compiled and linked in one step, producing just the executable binary.

Interpreted languages do not use the Build command.

#### Make all

This effectively runs "make all" in the same directory as the current file.

For each of the Make commands, The Make tool path must be correctly set in the Tools tab of the Preferences dialog.

#### Make custom target

This is similar to running 'Make all' but you will be prompted for the make target name to be passed to the Make tool. For example, typing 'clean' in the dialog prompt will run "make clean".

#### Make object

Make object will run "make current_file.o" in the same directory as the current file, using its prefix for 'current_file'. It is useful for compiling just the current file without building the whole project.

#### Execute

Execute will run the corresponding executable file, shell script or interpreted script in a terminal window. Note that the Terminal tool path must be correctly set in the Tools tab of the Preferences dialog - you can use any terminal program that runs a Bourne compatible shell.

After your program or script has finished executing, you will be prompted to press the return key. This allows you to review any text output from the program before the terminal window is closed.

#### Set Includes and Arguments

By default the Compile and Build commands invoke the compiler and linker with only the basic arguments needed by all programs. Using Set Includes and Arguments you can add any include paths and compile flags for the compiler, any library names and paths for the linker, and any arguments you want to use when running Execute.

If you are using the Build command to compile and link in one step, you will need to set both the compiler arguments and the linker arguments in the linker command setting.

These settings are not saved when &app; is shut down. See below for how to set permanent arguments.

If you need complex settings for your build system, or several different settings, then writing a Makefile and using the Make commands is recommended.

#### Indicators

Indicators are red squiggly underlines which are used to highlight errors which occured while compiling the current file. So you can easily see where your code failed to compile. To remove the indicators, just click on "Remove all indicators" in the document file menu.

If you do not like this feature, you can disable it in the preferences dialog.

#### File type configuration settings

You can set the commands to run for compiling, building or executing by opening the relevant `filetypes.*` configuration file, and checking the [build_settings] section. See for more information.

### Printing support

Geany has basic printing support. This means you can print a file by passing the filename of the current file to a command which actually prints the file. However, the printed document contains no syntax highlighting. You can adjust the command to which the filename is passed in the preferences dialog. The default command is:

    % lpr %f

%f will be substituted by the filename of the current file. &app; will not show errors from the command itself, so you should make sure that it works before(e.g. by trying to execute it from the command line).

A nicer example, which I prefer is:

    % a2ps -1 --medium=A4 -o - %f | xfprint4

But this depends on a2ps and xfprint4. As a replacement for xfprint4, gtklp or similar programs can be used.

The printing support of Geany will be improved in the future. With GTK 2.10, better printing (including syntax highlighting) will be possible.

### Keybindings

&app; supports the default keyboard shortcuts for the Scintilla editing widget. For a list of these commands, see . The Scintilla keyboard shortcuts will be overridden by any custom keybindings with the same keyboard shortcut.

For all actions listed below you can define your own keybindings. Open the Preferences dialog, select the desired action and click on change. In the opening dialog you can press any key combination you want and it will be saved when you press OK. You can define only one key combination for one action.

Some of the default key combinations cannot be changed, e.g. menu_new or menu_open. These are set by GTK and should be kept, but you can still add other key combinations for these actions. For example to execute menu_open by default CtrlO is set, but you can also define AltO, so that the file open dialog is shown by pressing either CtrlO or AltO.

The following table lists all customizable keyboard shortcuts.

#### Keybindings action table

Action | Description
--- | ---
Menu items
New | Creates a new file.
Open | Opens a file.
Save | Saves the current file.
Save all | Saves all open files.
Close all | Closes all open files.
Close | Closes the current file.
Reload file | Reloads the current file. All unsaved changes will be lost.
Print | Prints the current file.
Undo | Undoes the last action.
Redo | Redoes the last action.
Select all | Makes a selection of all text in the current document.
Preferences | Opens preferences dialog.
Find Next | Finds next result.
Find Previous | Finds previous result.
Replace | Opens the Replace dialog.
Find in files | Opens the Find in files dialog.
Go to line | Opens the Go to line dialog.
Show Colour Chooser | Opens the Colour Chooser dialog.
Fullscreen | Switches to fullscreen mode.
Toggle Messages Window | Toggles the message window (status and compiler messages) on and off.
Toggle Sidebar | Shows or hides the sidebar.
Zoom In | Zooms in the text
Zoom Out | Zooms out the text
Replace tabs by space | Replaces all tabs with the right amount of spaces.
Fold all | Folds all contractible code blocks.
Unfold all | Unfolds all contracted code blocks.
Build options
Compile | Compiles the current file.
Build | Builds (compiles if necessary and links) the current file.
Make all | Builds the current file with the Make tool.
Make custom target | Builds the current file with the Make tool and a given target.
Make object | Compiles the current file with the Make tool.
Run | Executes the current file in a terminal emulation.
Run (alternative command) | Executes the current file in a terminal emulation.
Build options | Opens the build options dialog.
Miscellaneous
Reload symbol list | Reloads the tag/symbol list.
Switch to Editor | Switches to editor widget.
Switch to Scribble | Switches to scribble widget.
Switch to VTE | Switches to VTE widget.
Switch to left document | Switches to the previous open document.
Switch to right document | Switches to the next open document.
Editing operations
Duplicate line or selection | Duplicates the current line or selection.
Comment line | Comments current line or selection.
Complete word | Shows auto completion list.
Show calltip | Shows call tips for the current function or method.
Show macro list | Shows a list of available macros and variables in the workspace.
Suppress auto completion | If you type something like if or for and press this key, it will not be auto completed.
Find Usage | Finds all occurrences of the current word (near the keyboard cursor) and displays them in the messages window.
Go to tag definition | Jump to the definition of the current word (near the keyboard cursor). If the definition cannot be found (e.g. the relevant file is not open) &app; will beep and do nothing. Used for function definitions.
Go to tag declaration | Jump to the declaration of the current word (near the keyboard cursor). If the declaration cannot be found (e.g. the relevant file is not open) &app; will beep and do nothing. Used for function prototypes.

## Configuration files

### Filetype definition files

All colour definitions and other filetype specific settings are stored in the filetype definition files. Those settings are colours for syntax highlighting, general settings like comment characters or word delimiter characters as well as compiler and linker settings.

The system-wide configuration files can be found in `$prefix/share/geany` and are called `filetypes.$ext`, where $prefix is the path where &app; is installed (commonly `/usr/local`) and $ext is the name of the filetype. For every filetype there is a corresponding definition file. There is one exception: `filetypes.common` - this file is for general settings, which are not specific to a certain filetype. It is not recommended to edit the system-wide files, because they will be overridden when Geany is updated.

To change the settings, copy a file from `$prefix/share/geany` to the subdirectory `filedefs` in your configuration directory (usually `~/.geany/`).

For example:

    % cp /usr/local/share/geany/filetypes.c /home/username/.geany/filedefs/

Then you can edit the file and the changes are also available after an update of &app; because they reside in your configuration directory. Alternatively, you can create a file `~/.geany/filedefs/filetypes.X` and add only these settings you want to change. All missing settings will be read from the corresponding global definition file in `$prefix/share/geany`.

#### Format

##### [styling] Section

In this section the colours for syntax highlighting are defined. The format is always: `key=forground_colour;background_colour;bold;italic`

Colours have to be specified as RGB hex values prefixed by 0x. For example red is 0xff0000, blue is 0x0000ff. The values are case-insensitive, but it is a good idea to use small letters. Bold and italic are flags and should only be "true" or "false". If their value is something other than "true" or "false", "false" is assumed.

##### [keywords] Section

This section contains keys for different keyword lists specific to the filetype. Some filetypes do not support keywords, so adding a new key will not work. You can only add or remove keywords to/from an existing list.

The keywords list must be in one line without line ending characters.

##### [settings] Section

###### General settings

Key | Description | Example
--- | --- | ---
wordchars | Word delimiting characters. These characters define word boundaries. | (look at sourcecode)
comment_open | A character or string which is used to comment code. If you want to use multiline comments, also set comment_close, otherwise leave it empty. | comment_open=/*
comment_close | If multiline comments are used, this is the character or string to close the comment. | comment_close=*/

comment_use_indent

Set this to false if a comment character or string should start at column 0 of a line. If set to true it uses any indentation of the line.

###### Comment indentation

comment_use_indent=true would generate this if a line is commented (e.g. with CtrlD)

    	#command_example();

comment_use_indent=false would generate this if a line is commented (e.g. with CtrlD)

    #command_example();

This setting only works for single line comments.

comment_use_indent=true

##### [build_settings] Section

###### Build settings

Key | Description | Example
--- | --- | ---

compiler

This item specifies the command to compile source code files. But it is also possible to use it with interpreted languages like Perl or Python. With these filetypes you can use this option as a kind of syntax parser, which sends output to the compiler message window.

You should quote the filename to also support filenames with spaces. The following wildcards for filenames are available:

- %f - complete filename without path

- %e - filename without path and without extension

compiler=gcc -Wall -c "%f"

linker | This item specifies the command to link the file. If the file is not already compiled, it will be compiled while linking. The -o option is automatically added by &app;. This item works well with GNU gcc, but may be problematic with other compilers (esp. with the linker). | linker=gcc -Wall "%f"
run_cmd | Use this item to execute your file. It has to have been built already. Use the %e wildcard to have only the name of the executable (i.e. without extension) or use the %f wildcard if you need the complete filename, e.g. for shell scripts. | run_cmd="./%e"

#### Special file filetypes.common

There is a special filetype definition file called `filetypes.common`. This file defines some general non-filetype-specific settings.

##### General settings

Key | Description | Example
--- | --- | ---
default | The default style for text (e.g. for files without filetype). For the detailed format, please see the above "[styling] Section". | default=0x000000;0xffffff;false;false
selection | The style for colouring selections. Only foreground and background colour are interpreted. | selection=0xc0c0c0;0x00007F;false;false
brace_good | The style for brace highlighting when a matching brace was found. | brace_good=0xff0000;0xFFFFFF;true;false
brace_bad | The style for brace highlighting when no matching brace was found. | brace_bad=0x0000ff;0xFFFFFF;true;false
caret | The style for colouring the caret(the blinking cursor). Only the first argument is interpreted. | caret=0x000000;0x0;false;false
current_line | The style for colouring the background of the current line. Only the second argument is interpreted. | current_line=0x0;0xE5E5E5;false;false

folding_style

The style of folding icons. Only first and second arguments are used.

Valid values for the first argument are:

- 1 - for boxes

- 2 - for circles

Valid values for the second argument are:

- 1 - for straight lines

- 2 - for curved lines

folding_style=1;1;false;false

invert_all | Whether to invert all defined colours. This is useful if you like a dark background colour(e.g. black) and do not want to change every single line. Please note, at time of writing this was only tested with the C syntax highlighting. Only first argument is interpreted. Set it to 1 to invert all colours. | invert_all=0;0;false;false

### Filetype extensions

You can override the default extensions that &app; uses for each filetype using the `filetype_extensions.conf` file.

To override the system-wide configuration file, copy it from `$prefix/share/geany` to your configuration directory, usually `~/.geany/`. $prefix is the path where &app; is installed (commonly `/usr/local`).

For example:

    % cp /usr/local/share/geany/filetype_extensions.conf /home/username/.geany/

Then edit it and remove all the lines for filetype extensions that you do not want to override. The remaining lines can be edited after the `=` sign, using a semi-colon separated list of patterns which should be matched for that filetype.

For example, to set the filetype extensions for Make, the `/home/username/.geany/filetype_extensions.conf` file should look like:

    						[Extensions]
    						Make=Makefile*;*.mk;Buildfile;

### Templates

&app; supports several templates for file headers, multiline comments (frame comments), function descriptions, a typical ChangeLog entry and a short GPL notice. To use these templates, just open the Edit menu or open the popup menu by right-clicking in the editor widget, and choose "Insert Comments" and insert templates as you want.

Some templates (like file header or ChangeLog entry) will always be inserted at the top of the file.

To insert a function description, the cursor must be inside of the function, so that the function name can be determined automatically. The description will be positioned correctly one line above the function, just check it out. If the cursor is not inside of a function or the function name cannot be determined, you cannot insert a function description.

Each template can be customized to your needs. The templates are in the configuration directory, which is in `~/.&app_small;/` (see for further information about the configuration directory). Just open the desired template with an editor (ideally &app; ;-) ) and edit the template as your needs. There are some wildcards which will be automatically replaced by &app; at startup.

All wildcards must be enclosed by "{" and "}", e.g. {date}.

In the configuration dialog you can find a tab "Templates" (see ). You can define the default values which will be inserted in the templates. You should restart &app; after making changes, because they are only read at startup.

Since &app; 0.3 there are also templates for creating new files. They can be found in `~/.&app_small;/`, too. All template files for creating new files begin with `template.filetype.` followed by the filetype. At creating a new file with a filetype template, the template for the fileheader is automatically prepended. Please note that the complete behaviour is still under development and will probably be changed in one of the next releases. Sorry.

#### Template wildcards

Wildcard | Description | Available in following templates
--- | --- | ---
developer | The name of the developer. | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
initial | The developer's initials, e.g. "ET" for Enrico Tröger or "JFD" for John Foobar Doe. | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
mail | The email address of the developer. | file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
company | The company the developer is working for. | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
year | The current year in the format: YYYY | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
version | The initial version of a new file. | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
date | The current date in the format: YYYY-MM-DD | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
untitled | The string "untitled" (this will be translated to your locale), used in filetype templates | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
geanyversion | The actual Geany version, e.g. "&app; &appversion;" | filetypes, file header, function description, ChangeLog entry
datetime | The current date and time in the format: DD.MM.YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZZZ | file header, function description
filename | The filename of the current file. Only available for the file header template. | file header
gpl | This wildcard inserts a short GPL notice. | file header
functionname | The function name of the function at the cursor position. This wildcard will only be replaced in the function description template. | function description

If you need any other wildcards or a special date/time format, please email the author &author_mail;.
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## License for Scintilla and SciTE

Copyright 1998-2003 by Neil Hodgson <neilh@scintilla.org>

All Rights Reserved

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

NEIL HODGSON DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL NEIL HODGSON BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.