Chapter 1. Introduction
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## Chapter 1. Introduction

## About Geany

Geany 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 Geany only requires the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you only need the GTK2 runtime libraries installed to run it.

The basic features of Geany 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 including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal, and others

- Tag/Symbol lists

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