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