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## Preferences

You may adjust Geany's settings using the Edit --> Preferences dialog. Any changes you make there can be applied by hitting either the Apply or the Ok button. These settings will persist between Geany sessions. Note that most settings here have descriptive popup bubble help -- just hover the mouse over the item in question to get help on it.

You may also adjust some View settings (under the View menu) that persist between Geany sessions. The settings under the Document menu, however, are only for the current document and revert to defaults when restarting Geany.

Note, in the paragraphs that follow, the text describing a dialog tab (if present) comes after the screenshot of that tab.

Figure 3.4. General tab in preferences dialog

The "Context Activation" setting needs to be documented.

Figure 3.5. Interface tab in preferences dialog

The open files list and the editor tabs are two different ways to switch between documents using the mouse. When you hit the key combination to move between tabs, the order is determined by the tab order, not alphabetical as shown in the open files list (regardless whether or not editor tabs are visible).

Figure 3.6. Toolbar tab in preferences dialog

Figure 3.7. Files tab in preferences dialog

Figure 3.8. Editor tab in preferences dialog

Line wrapping refers to the display of the text in the editor. Currently, there is no setting to have Geany automatically insert newlines into your document while you type.

Figure 3.9. Tools tab in preferences dialog

Figure 3.10. Template tab in preferences dialog

Figure 3.11. Keybinding tab in preferences dialog

There are some handy commands in here that are not, by default, bound to a key combination, and may in fact not even be available as a menu item (for example, the very handy "Hide and show all additional widgets").

### Note

For more information see the section called “Keybindings”.

Figure 3.12. VTE tab in preferences dialog

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