I was looking something to replace Gedit / Scite text editor, since i work with large files (1+ mln lines) opening those files in gedit was a nightmare i took 5-8 minutes to open a file with almost 100% cpu load, and searching through the files was almost as slow as opening.
Before gedit i used scite the scintilla base text editor i was extremely fast it almost perfectly suited my needs except two things. Lack of other types of encoding than UTF-8 and in my opinion stupid options file that had to be edited manually since it doesn’t save options when you change it in scite. I looked for something to replace scite as well.
So i started looking for a scintilla based text editors, and i found one. Geany 0.17.
“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 – Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.”
Some basic features of Geany:
- Syntax highlighting
- Code folding
- Symbol name auto-completion
- Construct completion/snippets
- Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
- Call tips
- Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list)
- Symbol lists
- Code navigation
- Build system to compile and execute your code
- Simple project management
- Plugin interface (see Plugins)
- Built in console
- Opens file in choosen encoding
- Replaces EOF for WIN UNIX MAC formats
So now opening a file is taking 20 seconds :) It’s extremely fast, and have powerful search options. This is THE text editor I’ve been looking for…
A good replacement for gedit which is slow, and scite whitch is fast but week in configuration.
Highly recommended you can download a source / win exe from this location download geany
